Course Description
This course provides students with a foundational understanding of the impact of trauma and crisis on individuals, families, and communities. Emphasis will be on the research, theory, skills, and attitudes essential for working with those suffering from traumatic stress. Students will learn trauma-informed practices and procedures useful for prevention, assessment, intervention, and treatment. Special attention is given to the intersection of trauma, crisis, and addiction. This course combines psychological insights with biblical principles to address the impact of trauma on the human spirit, emphasizing the transformative power of God’s love and grace in the journey towards healing. In this course, you will synthesize a major doctoral project combining theoretical and practical research related to trauma-informed organizations and management, specifically for your context.
Course Outcomes
- Identify the history of the discipline of trauma counseling and crisis intervention.
- Analyze crisis intervention strategies and their role in de-escalation and trauma-informed care.
- Reflect on your own history of trauma and how that might influence your ability to counsel and support clients in crisis and/or with a trauma background.
- Compare and contrast the diagnostic criteria of Acute Stress Disorder (ASD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD).
- Develop treatment plans and techniques based on the type of trauma-related diagnosis (ASD, PTSD & C-PTSD) and other factors.
- Create a trauma-informed care plan for your organization.
- Evaluate clinical approaches to crisis intervention and trauma in light of a biblical perspective.
- Assess and respond to your own potential for burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma given your current context.
DOLI Degree Program Outcomes
Degree outcomes are the overall skills and knowledge we expect you will have after successfully completing a degree program at City Vision University. This course supports the following program outcomes, marked with an (I) for Introduce, (D) for Develop and an (M) for Mastery. After completing the degree, you will be able to do the following in each of the listed domains:
- Research methods. Apply action research methods to practical research topics in the field.
- Diffusion of Innovation. Utilize technology and relational networking to help diffuse innovations within a community of practice.
- Values Alignment. To develop a theological vision and to align your organization’s strategy, culture and systems with that vision to avoid secularization and mission drift.
- Strategy. To develop a synthesis to integrate a wide range of business skills into a strategic plan for starting or growing an organization.
- Social Entrepreneurship. Develop strategies and plans to effectively use technology and innovation to achieve organizational goals.
- Action Research Project. Synthesize action research with theory and practice to solve a practical challenge facing your organization and/or the larger field.
Concentration Outcomes
- 7a. Executive Leadership & Fundraising. Develop and implement plans to grow an organization in its impact, financial health and relational health.
- 7b. Nonprofit Program Leadership & Social Entrepreneurship. Improve the effectiveness of nonprofit programs by implementing best practices.
- 7c. Education Leadership and Innovation. Apply disruptive and continuous innovation principles to designing courses and programs to provide radically affordable and practical online education.
- 7d. Organizational Culture and Change Management. Develop and implement plans to improve organizational health and adapt to change.
- 7e. Trauma-Informed Counseling Management. Develop and implement plans to establish trauma-informed culture of health throughout an organization. (M)
Broad Institutional Doctoral Outcomes
- I1. Knowledge (Head). Apply a wide range of tools to help solve society’s great problems by shifting from a single lens/tool/discipline to a multiple lens, multifaceted Biblical understanding of reality.
- I2. Skills (Hands). Develop the skills you need for the next position in your development as a leader by shifting from mastery & understanding of a division in an organization to a comprehensive systemic mastery/understanding needed to lead across the organization. (D)
- I3. Attitudes/Character (Heart). Develop the character and discipline needed to step into greater leadership roles by losing the bias of your old position to gain broader perspective and intellectual humility needed to accelerate your commitment to lifelong learning.
Syllabus
Course Materials & Tuition
| James, R., & Gilliland, B. (2020). Crisis Intervention Strategies (8th edition). Brooks/Cole. ISBN: 978-0-357-67065-1. | $78.00 |
| Gingrich, H. D. (2020). Restoring the Shattered Self: A Christian Counselor’s Guide to Complex Trauma (Second edition). IVP Academic. ISBN: 978-0-8308-2866-1 | $18.00 |
| Tuition | $ |
| Total Cost of Course: | $ |