HSV 440 Trauma-Informed Care and Healing Centered Engagement

Spring

Trauma-informed care is an approach to working with others and organizing human service systems in a way that centralizes the experiences of trauma. Trauma-informed and healing-centered approaches are those that recognize and effectively respond to the nature, prevalence, and impact of trauma on individuals, families and communities in ways that promotes healing and prevents further traumatization. These approaches are recognized as a component of best practice in many human service fields including child welfare, education, criminal justice, Veteran’s services, victim services, health care and community planning. In this class, we will explore the nature and impact of trauma and healing from a neurobiological, psychological, social, and political perspective, the principles of trauma-informed and healing-centered care and how it is being applied to schools, correctional, community-based, and residential behavioral health, long-term care, and other human service settings. Prerequisite: 15 or more credits.

3 credit hours