Oct 07, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2019-20 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2019-20 [Archived Catalog]

Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)

CFS 4670 - Children, Families, Stress and Trauma


The purpose is to help students understand the nature and impact of traumatic experiences on children, adolescents, adults, and families. Examines the history, scope, and impact of human trauma, resiliency, and adaptation. It explores traumatic stress syndromes, vicarious trauma, and universal traumatic response patterns. Considers the impact of these experiences from a biopsychosocial and developmental perspective: psychological trauma has somatic consequences. Treatment, intervention, adaptation, resiliency, recovery, attachment, personal meaning, and the spiritual aspects of trauma are explored. Intended to provide students with a clear understanding of the physical and psychological processes involved in adaptation and integration and how untreated trauma can lead to lifelong pathology and dysfunction.

Requisites: C or better in (CFS 2700 and 2710) and (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Demonstrate a strong level of knowledge and understanding regarding trauma, post-traumatic illnesses, treatment, and adaptation.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of how culture and diversity impacts the traumatic processes, strengthening abilities to work affirmatively and effectively with diverse populations of people where issues of family structure, race, age, and gender.
  • Describe different types of loss and traumatic experiences.
  • Examine the historical aspects of beliefs about the nature and scope of human traumatic exposure.
  • Identify the biophysical aspects of traumatic experience and how they are interconnected with psychological aspects.



Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)