Crisis/Trauma/Grief Counseling

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CRISIS, TRAUMA & GRIEF COUNSELING: IMPACT, INTERVENTION & MANAGEMENT. This course is designed to provide knowledge, competencies, and skill acquisition in crisis intervention, trauma, and grief counseling. Learners will investigate ecological, developmental, and social values that impact individuals, families, and communities at multiple intersections of identity. Trauma associated with racism, poverty, violence, immigration, refugee status, homelessness, abuse, death, injury, health, and crime (as well as other conditions and issues) will be explored. Culturally relevant crisis intervention models and crisis intervention triage assessment practices will be examined. Skills to address multicultural issues as relevant to stress, crisis, and trauma, will be evaluated. Learners will investigate the neurobiological and bodily responses to trauma and implications for treatment. This course will also provide learners with a foundation to understanding and applying models, types, and theories of grief and bereavement counseling skills and techniques. Prerequisites: CMC-614, CMC-620, CMC-626