ASSIGNMENT ONE

Title: Safe and professional practice (50%, 2,500 words)

Task:

Critically analyse the common challenges encountered by trauma survivors when considering forgiveness in your field. Evaluate your role as a facilitator in ensuring their safety and supporting their healing.

Key learning intentions (LI):

LI 2. Accurately identify safe practice principles for responding to people who have experienced interpersonal trauma

LI 3. Demonstrate an ability to engage critically and accurately with relevant evidence-based research

LI 5. Critically engage with the Biblical exhortation to love and forgive one another, to restore spiritual (Wairua) wellbeing

Description

Step one: Analyse common challenges in the forgiveness process

• Provide background on your practice and describe prevalent forms of trauma in your workplace or community.
• Define and critically discuss forgiveness, including Biblical perspectives: Explore the tension and dilemma surrounding love and forgiveness, particularly for survivors dealing with unfixable suffering, brokenness and injustice. Examine the challenges trauma survivors encounter in their forgiveness process including premature pressure from others to forgive.
• Apply the ‘Te Whare Tapa Whā’ model to identify the survivor’s challenges across emotional, mental, physical and spiritual dimensions.

Step two: Evaluating your role as a facilitator

• Discuss the process of forgiveness and the forgiveness journey using Phil Halstead’s research.
• Discuss your roles as a facilitator: Based on Halstead’s work, analyse safe practice principles to ensure survivors’ emotional, mental, physical and spiritual safety throughout their healing and forgiveness journey.

Additional Guidelines:

• This is a formal academic and professional assignment requiring critical engagement with peer-reviewed research.
• Reference at least 6–8 academic sources to strengthen your discussion.
• Utilise the weekly reading lists and online discussion forums to expand your analysis.
• Ensure all references follow APA 7th formatting standards.

Grading rubric

The essay assignment will be marked according to the following criteria: Pay close attention to the precise wordings in each box, as markers will select grades in accordance with these wordings.