CRISIS PREVENTATION, INTERVENTION, & TRAUMA-INFORMED SCHOOL COUNSELING

Catalog description

This course prepares school counseling students to serve as leaders, advocates, and systems change agents in PK-12 schools, with a focus on crisis prevention, intervention, and trauma-informed practice. Students examine best practices in crisis prevention, intervention, and postvention planning and develop skills to screen and intervene with students at risk for suicide and other mental health and behavioral disorders. Emphasis is placed on becoming trauma-informed school counselors who recognize the widespread impact of trauma on students' academic, social, and emotional functioning and integrate this understanding into assessment, intervention, and advocacy. Students learn to create safe, predictable, and culturally responsive environments that promote resilience, foster collaboration with stakeholders, and avoid retraumatization.