2020-2021 Academic Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
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CNS 6620 - Treating PTSD, Acute Stress, Grief, & Trauma


Credits: 3

This course will examine and analyze the causes, symptoms, and treatments of PTSD, acute stress, grief, and trauma as well as the history of trauma and trauma treatment, assessment strategies, and treatment planning and modalities. This course addresses the history of treatment, providing diagnostic assessment and practice across the traumatic stress presentations. Students will complete research, reading, and writing on the current responses and evidence-based practices in integrated clinical treatment of trauma in counseling as well as post-traumatic growth and resilience. This course will also review the impact and consequences of acute stress on victims, the process of grief and loss, and the long-term consequences of unresolved and complex trauma. Students will complete training for certification in Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Classroom time for this course will be completed during a week-long intensive with pre- and post-work completed online. 

Prerequisite(s): CNS 5420  
Graduate