ESTSS European Certificate of Psychotraumatology

Presentation

In recent years, professionals from different areas have been expressing significant interest in the area of ​​Psychotraumatology. In fact, natural disasters, road accidents, widespread situations of violence are present in the daily lives of today's societies, constituting potentially traumatic events and reinstating the concept of trauma at the heart of modern psychopathology.

It is, therefore, important to promote, in a context of interdisciplinary dialogue, knowledge about prevention and intervention in psychological trauma in situations of crisis, disaster or catastrophe.

In this sense, the Trauma Centre of the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, as a Member Society of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS), will begin the III Training Course in Psychotraumatology with access to the European Certificate of Psychotraumatology, validated by ESTSS.