Crisis and Trauma in Learning Environments

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) This course introduces students to approaches and assessment techniques relevant to effective crisis and trauma work with early-, middle-, and senior-years students. Topics include strategies for prevention, intervention, and postvention; Western-based trauma discourse and counter-discourse; gender, colonization, and trauma; suicidal crisis; crisis related to body image, fat prejudice, and eating difficulty; anti-violence resistance and community building; "belonging" students; and self-care.