Healing Approaches to Trauma: Working with Individuals and Communities

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of trauma and explores approaches to healing. We will begin with a basic understanding of individual and collective trauma and trauma-informed practice. The course will introduce a range of approaches to healing, broadening the tools we have for responding to trauma in holistic ways. These innovative approaches may include: clinical therapeutic and self-help, mind-body, body-centered, animal-assisted, collective and community-based, and social justice-oriented. This course may be of particular interest and importance for students of social work, psychology, sociology, nursing, religion, and communication.