COUN 8280 TRAUMA, CRISIS , AND GRIEF COUNSELING (3 credits)
This course will present approaches to trauma, crisis intervention, and grief counseling which include definitions and characteristics of trauma and crisis, a brief history of trauma and crisis intervention and associated theories/models and a practice of skills for intervention and crisis case management. Topics will include applied therapeutic counseling strategies in general casework and in crisis intervention cases, in particular, which describe actual techniques to alleviate the crisis and trauma. Grief topics will also be explored including counseling theory, techniques and interventions.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to UNO Counseling as degree seeking student; COUN 8030, COUN 8200, COUN 8040; Dept permission/graduate status as degree seeking student in allied mental/behavioral health (based on availability). Not open to non-degree graduate students.