Trauma and Crisis Intervention

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of crisis intervention, crisis intervention models, and the treatment of trauma-related disorders for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. Specific counseling models, theories, techniques, and strategies are reviewed. Students will learn how to assess risk after trauma and provide immediate crisis intervention unique to different environments. Objectives include: identify acute reactions to trauma, identify diagnostic criteria for PTSD and stressor-related disorders, describe the epidemiology of trauma and traumatic stress, learn theories and techniques of crisis intervention, practice techniques through role-playing, and summarize the most current evidence-based practices in the treatment of trauma-related symptoms for adults, adolescents, and children.