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Apr 18, 2024
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SWK 6210. Trauma-Informed Social Work Practice (3 credits)
A thorough understanding of trauma is essential at all levels of social work practice. This course emphasizes key components of becoming a trauma-informed social worker: developing a well rounded understanding of the diagnostics and neurobiology of trauma, exploring the issue of trauma across various social work populations, becoming conversant in evidence-based treatments and interventions for traumatized populations, and grasping the impact of secondary traumatic stress on the practitioner. This course will enhance students’ clinical insights and skills with regard to trauma as well as prepare students to work with the issue of trauma at any level of social work practice: micro, mezzo, and/or macro. Throughout the course, a special emphasis will be placed on the impact of structural and systemic oppression in the configuration of trauma. The course will rely heavily on a case-based method of instruction, combining theory with real world practice examples to support students’ comprehension of the impact of trauma in peoples’ lives. PREREQ: Admission into the Graduate school.
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