COUN 600 - Crisis & Trauma Counseling

Credits: 4.5

This course provides an overview of the impact of crises, disasters, and other trauma-causing events on individuals, families, and communities. The course is designed to introduce students to basic crisis intervention strategies, fundamental crisis intervention theory, and offers practical applications in various crisis situations such as natural disasters, violence, terrorism, or war. Students will explore various assessment, intervention, and crisis treatment issues. Students will also learn and engage in specialized skills, methods, and interventions for working with those suffering with traumatic stress to enhance resiliency. Appropriate ethical and legal responses to individual, community, national, and international crises will be examined. Student must be accepted into the CMHC program to register.

Prerequisites: COUN 550 and COUN 570