Clinical Practice

• SSW CP 814: Advanced Trauma Seminar
  Graduate Prerequisites: SSW CP 755 ; SSW CP 756 ; SSW CP 757; For Traditional Track and HSE Students
  Graduate Corequisites: SSW CP 755 or SSW CP 756 or SSW CP 757; For Advanced Standing Students
  The Advanced Trauma Seminar is designed for students to deepen their knowledge of the impact of trauma, increase their skill set in the treatment of diverse people who have experienced trauma, and examine the impact of systems and societal inequality on both people who have experienced trauma and their related clinical care. Multiple conceptualizations of trauma, inequality, and mental health will be discussed, with associations between micro- and macro-level harm and healing being emphasized. This course builds on CP 803 & CP 804, with emphases on critical thinking as it relates to relational harm and healing. Foundations of the course include respect for client agency and autonomy, as well as institutionalized self-care. We will contextualize trauma-related mental health through examining intersectionality, sexual violence, relational harm of interpersonal trauma, and marginalized perspectives on mental health and healing. We will additionally focus on relational approaches to therapy and addressing systems of oppression within therapy. Finally, we will revisit ethics in therapy and identify social workers' roles in advocating for social justice for their clients through macro-level change.