EDCO 790 Crisis & Trauma Counseling

This course provides an overview of the aspects of stress and trauma, including examination of seminal texts and concepts. In addition, a foundational understanding of trauma counseling, theories, and interventions will be offered, together with definitions, causative factors, incidence rates, and idiomatic factors of a number of traumatic events. Students will consider how science informs the delivery of effective counseling theory and technique for these clients with the goal of integrating ethical, effective, and biblically grounded care.

For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.

This course is intended to provide a background in seminal concepts, theories, and treatment approaches, as well as introduce and complement the Traumatology Cognate and offer a single-course overview of the foundations of traumatology to the students in other cognates.

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After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student will participate in 2 discussions in this course. The goal of the discussions in this course is to engage in an enjoyable, meaningful, and academically thought-provoking conversation simulating a classroom environment. In the first discussion, the student will post a thread that is an abstract of his or her Analysis of the Study of Trauma paper and attach a copy of that paper. Each student will reply to an assigned classmate to provide comparison and contrast feedback as based on current peer-reviewed articles. The second discussion will consist of the student posting his or her traumatology presentation on his or her course study on a topic and population in trauma and providing substantive reply to a classmate on his or her presentation. (CLO: A, B, C, D)

This course provides an overview of the aspects of stress and trauma, including examination of seminal texts and concepts. These assignments will establish a foundation to support course focus on understanding of trauma counseling, theories, and interventions that intersect with a number of traumatic events. The assignments will also show how science informs the delivery of effective counseling theory and technique for these clients with the goal of integrating ethical, effective, and biblically grounded care. They will ground the student in components of quality doctoral level writing as needed in preparation for the successful completion of the dissertation requirement. These key components are to demonstrate analysis of what the student studied from multiple resources on a topic, what new insight the student gained from that study, and how the student can synthesize that into practice. These assignments consist of two parts. (CLO: A, B, C, D) 

Analysis in the Study of Trauma: Part One Assignment

Using the three course textbooks as reference, the student will develop a 1–2-page paper (300 to 400 words) on the topic of Analysis in the Study of Trauma with a focus on an aspect of trauma of personal interest such as a specific aspect of the experience of trauma, a specific treatment of trauma, risk factors or protective factors in trauma with demonstration of synthesized learning from at least 2 of the 3 course textbooks and at least 2 peer-reviewed scholarly articles published within the last 5 years.

Analysis in the Study of Trauma: Part Two Assignment

The student will use professor feedback on Analysis in the Study of Trauma: Part One Assignment and classmate response in the Peer-Review Discussion: Analysis in the Study of Trauma to build on Analysis in the Study of Trauma: Part One Assignment for a more comprehensive analysis paper. The intent of the revision opportunity is to solidify understanding and development of quality doctoral level writing that is aligned with writing the dissertation. NOTE: This is the only course assignment where revision of an initial submission will be granted. The student should note corrections from this assignment and apply those with future work. (CLO: A, B, D)

This course work consists of a series of assignments designed to allow the student to intentionally focus on and narrow in on a specific topic and population of interest across the 8 weeks of the term. This series of assignments is contemplated to help prepare the student for the dissertation requirements of deepening a single topic of interest over a period of time and presenting the findings in more than one modality. 

Traumatology Study Foundation Assignment

This assignment is the first in a series of assignments designed to allow the student to intentionally focus on and narrow in on a specific topic and population of interest across the 8 weeks of the term. In this first assignment, the student will identify a topic of interest in the field of traumatology. Common topics include traumatic events, diagnoses known to be related to trauma, and evidence-based treatment modalities practiced in the field of traumatology. The topic should also be narrowed to a specific population of interest. This submission, along with all other submissions in the course, is required to be formatted using current APA format, professional standards. (CLO: A, B, C, D)

Traumatology Outline Assignment

In this outline, the student will incorporate the feedback from the first assignment in the series to further develop the focus of the topic and population of interest for the course. The Outline will include initial references that support the main points of the outline, with some initial development of topics throughout each of the 5 main sections of the outline. Each main section of the outline should include at least 1 peer-reviewed, scholarly article that supports the topics discussed in the sections. Other sources can be included, as well. A brief outline with a summary of the pertinent organization for the topic within each section should be presented along with the references pages for the sources mentioned in the outline. (CLO: A, B, C, D)

Traumatology Annotated Outline Assignment

In this annotated outline, the student will incorporate the feedback from the first 2 assignments in the series to further develop the focus of the topic and population of interest for the course. The annotated outline will include references that support the main points of the outline, with a clear development of topics throughout each of the 5 main sections of the outline. In addition to the use of the course texts, each main section of the outline should include the required number of peer-reviewed scholarly articles that support the topics discussed in the sections. A brief statement of facts from the articles or summary of the relevant issues from each of the articles should be included in the annotations within the section. A scholarly approach to biblical integration is required. No direct quotes should be included. (CLO: A, B, C, D)

Traumatology Paper Assignment

This assignment requires a specific focus on a narrow portion of the knowledge gained from this course. This paper builds upon the knowledge gained in the course and is the culmination of the series of assignments that began with Traumatology Study Foundations Assignment, Traumatology Outline Assignment, Traumatology Annotated Outline Assignment, Peer-Review Discussion: Traumatology Presentation, and finally, this assignment, Traumatology Paper Assignment. This series of assignments is contemplated to help prepare the student for the dissertation requirements of deepening a single topic of interest over a period of time and presenting the findings using more than one modality.

In this final assignment, the student will summarize the learning from this course and from outside sources to discuss one in-depth topic in traumatology. By this point in the course, the topic should be sufficiently narrowed in both scope and population to one, specific aspect of traumatology. The student may find that he or she wishes to continue to narrow his or her topic significantly from the Traumatology Outline Assignment and Peer-Review Discussion: Traumatology Presentation and may do so along with the feedback from the Instructor throughout the course. Since the doctoral student is frequently required to write on the same topic, including during the dissertation phase of the program, it is required that information in this paper must demonstrate a deepening view of the scholarship utilized throughout the course. The paper will contain references to a minimum of 15 scholarly journal articles published in the last 3 years in addition to references to the course texts. The paper will be 12-15 pages long, not counting the title page, abstract, or references. (CLO: A, B, C, D)

Quizzes (4)

Each of the 4 quizzes will cover the Learn sections for the assigned modules, with the questions divided between the readings and the presentations. The questions are randomized, so contents of each quiz will differ from those taken by the student’s classmates. Each quiz will be open-book/open-notes, contain 25 multiple-choice questions and have a 1-hour time limit. Each quiz must be completed in a single session.  (CLO: A & B).