TRAUMA, CRISIS AND GRIEF COUNSELING

Catalog description

(Slashed with CES 87669 ) This course is designed to provide graduate counseling students with core knowledge and competencies for trauma counseling. The course establishes fundamental concepts of trauma and crisis: definitions, types and impacts (neurobiological, cognitive, behavioral and socioemotional) on both clients and counselors. Students learn principles and counselor roles and responsibilities; procedures for responding to and assessing crisis and trauma; and standards for diagnosis and treatment of crisis/trauma-related conditions. The course utilizes widely practiced, evidence-based frameworks and practices and also presents established methods to evaluate empirical support on emerging approaches for trauma, crisis and grief counseling. Students critically synthesize information to apply their integrated knowledge and skills to clients’ unique contexts and concurrently practice self-care/regulation for resilience, wellness and ongoing counselor development and to prevent vicarious trauma, burnout and impairment.