TRAUMA, GRIEF & CRISIS COUNSELING

Catalog description

This course prepares counseling students with foundational knowledge, skills, and professional dispositions necessary for effective practice in crisis, trauma, and disaster response. Emphasis is placed on evidence-based crisis intervention models, trauma-informed care, suicide risk assessment and prevention, ethical and legal considerations, and the impact of acute and chronic crises on individuals, families, and communities. Students will develop competencies in assessment, intervention planning, stabilization, referral, and interdisciplinary collaboration, as well as understanding counselor roles in community outreach, emergency management systems, and culturally responsive crisis response.