Counseling for Loss, Trauma, Crisis

3 credits · Peabody College - Professional

Experiences of trauma, loss, and crises often bring people into counseling, and these experiences often overlap and intersect. This course will provide students with the knowledge and skills to assess behavioral, physiological, and emotional reactions to trauma, loss, and crises, to intervene using empirically supported interventions, and to engage in culturally, developmentally, and ethically attuned ways. Specific topics will include crisis intervention models, suicide and homicide risk assessment and intervention, natural disaster mental health, grief, loss, and bereavement, sources of trauma including generational trauma, racial trauma, and chronic and acute traumatic experiences, assessment of and treatment of trauma, and counselor self-awareness and self-care. [3]