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Feb 01, 2025
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COUN 282T: Special Topics: Counseling for Crisis, Disaster and Trauma Response Semester Hours: 3
This course is designed to prepare counselors to respond effectively in critical situations and help clients who are experiencing crisis situations in their lives, including disasters and other trauma-causing events. In this course, students will learn crisis intervention theory and the factors associated with trauma response and will learn evidence-based crisis intervention strategies to apply in different settings/contexts, ages and cultural groups. Students will be exposed to the tenets of designing a crisis/emergency management system in an agency, school or community based facility. Students will learn Psychological First Aid (PFA) as the current standard for counselor response to disaster/crisis situations and will also be exposed to counselor self-care principles.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Prerequisite: COUN 223 or instructor approval.
Summer Session III Offering(s):
80071: August 4-22 (TR, 5-8:30 p.m.); August 16 (S, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.); Volpe; 284 Hagedorn
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