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Strategies for Trauma-Informed Approaches to Improving Resilience, Certificate


Strategies for Trauma-Informed Approaches to Improving Resilience (1781)


  • Undergraduate
  • Health and Human Services
  • Social Work

Overview

Over the past few decades, clinicians and researchers have become increasingly aware of the effects of trauma on individuals, families, and communities. This growing recognition of exposure to trauma and its deleterious impacts has fueled the movement for strategies to ameliorate traumatic stress reactions. This interdisciplinary certificate program, Strategies for Trauma-informed Approaches Improving Resilience (STAIR), is designed to prepare undergraduate students for their respective professional fields, using research-based practices in trauma recognition, assessment of impact, and skill development to address the needs of those with trauma histories. The STAIR certificate is open to all majors. Courses for the certificate may also meet the requirements for other degree programs. 

Program Requirements (13 hours)

Course List
SWRK 311Understanding Intergenerational Trauma3
SWRK 330Human Behavior in the Social Environment3
SWRK 438Understanding Trauma3
SWRK 455Integrative Seminar: Strategies for Trauma-Informed Approaches Improving Resilience (STAIR) 11
Select one Elective from the list below3
CHHS 100
Introduction to Child Welfare
CRIM 238
Victimology & Victim Advocacy
CRIM 332
Juvenile Delinquency
CRIM 361
Race, Class, and Crime
EDU 385
Climate, Resources, & Society
FACS 391
Risk and Resilience
FACS 495
Family and Relationship Violence
HIST 302
Disability in the United States
HIST 333
History of Genocide
HIST 343
Communities of Struggle
HIST 390
Blacks in the American South
PH 365
Human Sexuality
PH 444
Death, Dying and Bereavement
PH 464
Women’s Health
PSY 355
Issues in Cross-Cultural Psychology
PSYS 353
Psychology of Prejudice and Stereotyping
SOCL 362
Social Institutions: Race, Class, and Gender
SOCL 466
Gender, Family, and Society
SWRK 300
Diversity and Social Welfare
SWRK 305
Environmental Justice: Theory, Policy, and Practice
SWRK 324
Opioid Epidemic
SWRK 356
Services for Juvenile Offenders and Their Families
Total Hours13
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Students must complete this course with a grade of C or better. 

Modality: This program is fully online.


 

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