COUN 509 - Overcoming Childhood Trauma

3 Credit(s)

This course helps students examine and define Childhood Trauma and its effect on neural, physical, and psychological development. Students will explore different treatment approaches and simulate techniques as they relate and correspond to different trauma-inducing childhood experiences. Students will evaluate methods comparing each against the others and choose appropriate approaches for use by applying in a hypothetical counseling situation. Students will identify unhealthy trauma-responses among providers, organizations, and systems providing a plan to assuage and replace dysfunctional patterns of behavior.