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Aug 04, 2025
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CFS 5670 - Children, Families, Stress and Trauma
The purpose is to help students understand the nature and impact of traumatic experiences on children, adolescents, adults, and families. Examines the history, scope, and impact of human trauma, resiliency, and adaptation. It explores traumatic stress syndromes, vicarious trauma, and universal traumatic response patterns. Considers the impact of these experiences from a biopsychosocial and developmental perspective: psychological trauma has somatic consequences. Treatment, intervention, adaptation, resiliency, recovery, attachment, personal meaning, and the spiritual aspects of trauma are explored. Intended to provide students with a clear understanding of the physical and psychological processes involved in adaptation and integration and how untreated trauma can lead to lifelong pathology and dysfunction.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate a strong level of knowledge and understanding regarding trauma, post-traumatic illnesses, treatment, and adaptation.
- Demonstrate your understanding of how culture and diversity impacts the traumatic processes, strengthening your abilities to work affirmatively and effectively with diverse populations of people where issues of family structure, race, age, gender.
- Describe different types of loss and traumatic experiences in the light of your own experiences.
- Examine the historical aspects of beliefs about the nature and scope of human traumatic exposure.
- Identify the biophysical aspects of traumatic experience and how they are interconnected with psychological aspects.
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