Description
Students will learn about assumptions, principles, and concepts of trauma-specific treatment approaches and trauma-informed care. Students will gain knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological first aid, its application in disaster mental health, crisis intervention, and crisis counseling. They will become familiar with major approaches in trauma treatment: individual and group trauma counseling, cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, and exposure therapies, psychopharmacological treatments, and newly emerging approaches. The acquired knowledge and skills can be applied in providing individual and group crisis intervention, brief trauma counseling, and treatment of survivors of sexual abuse, war trauma, torture, disasters and workplace violence, and others. The ethics of trauma work will be thoroughly covered. This course includes the fundamental occupational tasks of assessment, case presentation, case collaboration, team membership, and client interaction.