Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents

Catalog description

This elective course will introduce students to the core concepts (general theory and foundational knowledge) that inform evidence-based assessment and intervention with children, adolescents and families who are traumatized. Trauma is broadly defined and includes children and adolescents exposed to traumatic events including, but not limited to, natural disasters, war, abuse and neglect, medical trauma and witnessing interpersonal crime (e.g., family violence, intimate partner violence) and other traumatic events from a domestic and international perspective. The course will highlight the role of development, culture and empirical evidence in trauma-specific interventions with children, adolescents and their families. It will address the level of functioning of primary care giving environments and assess the capacity of the community to facilitate restorative processes.