DVCO 703 - Crisis, Trauma, and Grief Counseling (3)

This course provides an understanding of complex and shock trauma while also paying particular attention to issues of crisis and grief. The student will be introduced to the nature of complex trauma development, including the neuroscience behind it. This will put shock trauma, crisis, and grief in context illuminating how the body stores trauma and why somatic counseling interventions and trauma sensitive counseling is important and efficacious. The course will explore the counseling implications for trauma, crisis, and grief through the lifespan. Attention will be given to therapeutic strategies that are effective for people who struggle with trauma, crisis, and grief and as well as understanding a theological perspective of trauma, grief, and loss.