Trauma Informed Practice in Social Work

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course on trauma informed practice in social work focuses on understanding contemporary and historical trauma, coping with trauma on individual and collective levels, and learning how to facilitate trauma informed practice in generalist and community based social work settings. The course explores how trauma impacts people and communities on personal, interpersonal, and societal levels across generations with an emphasis on children/youth, Indigenous and Francophone peoples, women, and people of African descent and those living in poverty. It examines the interconnections of social work values with trauma informed practice and explores ways for social work to avoid retraumatizing and revictimizing.?This course addresses the knowledge and skills needed to help mitigate the impact of working in trauma exposed social work environments and experiences of vicarious trauma.