SW 558 - Abuse and Trauma: Theory and Intervention

Institution:
Portland State University
Subject:
Social Work
Description:
Examines the impact of trauma and abuse on adults, children, and families. Acute and long-term sequelae will be identified, emphasizing the interaction of traumatic and developmental effects. An integrative biopsychosocial intervention model for working with individuals, groups, and families will be explored through crisis and trauma, psychodynamic, constructivist, narrative, and feminist theories. Policy practice and advocacy issues, ethical and ideological issues, and current clinical, research, and policy debates in the field will be identified and discussed. The relationship of clinical narrative to contemporary social discourse about abuse and trauma will set the framework for the course, including clinical and empirical knowledge regarding effects of abuse and trauma and efficacy of treatment.
Credits:
3.00
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Instructional Type:
Lecture
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Phone Number:
(503) 725-3511
Regional Accreditation:
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
Calendar System:
Quarter

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