TRAUMA INFORMED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE

Catalog description

This course is intended to provide students with the knowledge, values, skills, and cognitive and affective processes necessary to effectively and compassionately engage in clinical practice with trauma survivors and their family across the life span. The course begins with an overview of the types of trauma that can occur and its impact on the individual and family. Building off this foundation, the course covers the evidence-based and evidence-informed assessment and clinical treatment of trauma survivors and family members of trauma survivors. Considerations in the therapeutic relationship will also be addressed