Program: Trauma-Informed Counseling Graduate Certificate (TICNL2-CERTE) - Wright State University
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Trauma-Informed Counseling Graduate Certificate (TICNL2-CERTE)
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CIP Code: 422801
Program Description
There has been an increasing interest in assessing intersectionality issues through the prism of crisis and trauma-informed counseling. Topics for inclusion in the graduate certificate program include theories, techniques, and interventions of trauma and crisis counseling, etiology, diagnosis and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), clinical interventions, and evidenced-based treatment modalities. The proposed courses for the Trauma-Informed Counseling Certification are based on increase in demand for trauma-informed care across the country. Counselors and related human services are often faced with complex client crises and trauma histories. In particular, although counselors-in-training gain knowledge and skills for practice, there is a need for an opportunity to explore additional training for the benefit of clients being served. In various counseling and related human services programs across the United States, courses such as crisis counseling, trauma counseling, and disaster mental health counseling have been integrated into the training of helping professionals. Based on this background, trauma-informed counseling certificate has been identified as key areas of inclusion into the department of Human Services Counseling Programs. The Human Services Department could contribute towards a synergy of expanding the interdisciplinary potential of the offered variety of courses. The certificate is designed to offer an interdisciplinary space, yet one that offers valuable exposure to economic analysis.
The proposed program will serve as an extension to the existing graduate degree training and or professional advancement for non-degree seeking individuals. The graduate certificate would enable graduate students from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds to develop a specialty in assessing client issues with trauma-informed knowledge, skills, and practice in accordance with CACREP Standards.
Admission Requirements
Anyone with a master’s degree and/or is pursing masters in any programs in the Department of Human Services and other related fields are eligible to apply for Trauma-Informed Counseling Certificate, e.g., licensed social worker, clinical psychologist school administrators, school personnel, and nursing.”
Program Learning Outcomes
Student Learning Outcomes/CACREP Core Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
Professional Orientation and Ethical Practice. Gain knowledge of studies that provide an understanding of aspects of professional functioning
counselors’ roles and responsibilities as members of an interdisciplinary emergency management response team during a local, regional, or national crisis, disaster or other trauma-causing event (II.G.1.c);
self-care strategies appropriate to the counselor role (II.G.1.d);
counseling supervision models, practices, and processes (II.G.1.e);
Social and Cultural Diversity
individual, couple, family, group, and community strategies for working with and advocating for diverse populations, including multicultural competencies (II.G.2.d);
Human Growth and Development. Understand the nature and needs of persons at all developmental levels and in multicultural contexts
human behavior, including an understanding of developmental crises, disability, psychopathology, and situational and environmental factors that affect both normal and abnormal behavior (II.G.3.f);
effects of crisis, disasters, and other trauma-causing events on persons of all ages (II.G.3.c);
Helping Relationships
An orientation to wellness and prevention as desired counseling goals (II.G.5.a);
crisis intervention and suicide prevention models, including the use of psychological first aid strategies (II.G.5.g);
Research and Evaluation
The use of research to inform evidence-based practice (II.G.8.e)
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Trauma-Informed Counseling Certificate
School of Education and Leadership
College of Health, Education, and Human Services
Program Requirements:
To obtain the certificate, a student must:
be enrolled in a graduate counseling program;
have a master’s degree before beginning the certificate program;
successfully complete 9 credit hours of Trauma-Informed Counseling listed below;
successfully complete 3 credit hours in appropriate graduate level classes from another discipline;
be a practicing counselor;
have completed a bachelor’s degree in a human service related field;
be enrolled in a helping professions graduate program such as social work or psychology;
earn a cumulative average of 3.0 for the 12-credit hour program.
Required courses: 9 Credit Hours
CNL 6210 - Crisis Counseling
Credit Hour(s):
CNL 9601 - Advanced Crisis Intervention
Credit Hour(s):
CNL 9602 - Assessment and Diagnosis of PTSD in Counseling Practice
Credit Hour(s):
Elective courses: 3 Credit Hours
Students must take one of the following electives:
CNL 7651 - Addiction in the K-12 Setting
Credit Hour(s):
RHB 7070 - Biopsychosocial-spiritual Aspects
Credit Hour(s):
RHB 7300 - Theory and Epidemiology of Addictions
Credit Hour(s):
RHB 7310 - Treatment and Prevention of Addictions
Credit Hour(s):
Total: 12 Credit Hours
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