Registered Traumatologist Progam of Study

Traumatology 101: Orientation to Traumatology

Provides the student with a history of the field, describes key concepts, theories, research, methods of assessment, and approaches to the treatment and prevention of the unwanted consequences (psychological/systemic, biological, political, aesthetic) of highly stressful/trauma-producing events affecting those in harm's way and those who care for them.

Traumatology 102: Clinical Traumatology

Reviews the most significant and useful approaches to preventing and treating psychological, social, and systemic trauma, in children and adults. Among the approaches associated with treating acute traumatic stress reactions are Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, Defusing, and Crisis Intervention. Among the approaches associated with treating PTSD are Hypnosis, Psychopharmacology, Cognitive Therapies, Behavioral Therapies, Information Processing Therapies (e.g. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Visual/Kinesthetic Dissociation, and Traumatic Incident Reduction), and other therapies (e.g. Thought Field Therapy).

Traumatology 103: Clinical Training (Choose 1 of the Sanctioned Workshops)

Students select a section of this course that focuses on a single clinical traumatology treatment approach. Separate course sections will be devoted to each of the following: Hypnosis, Psychopharmacology, Cognitive Therapies, Behavioral Therapies, Information Processing Therapies, and other therapies. Although the time requirements may vary, students who complete the course would qualify to take Traumatology 105: Clinical Internship, where they practice what they have learned here.

Traumatology 104: Community Applications

Here students recognize the critical role of culture, race, gender, age, social class, and other important social markers in designing a program of intervention for various types of clients. A wide variety of community-wide disasters are described, along with good and poor examples of effective, programmatic intervention.

Traumatology 105 : Clinical Internship

Students, under the supervision of a master traumatologist, spend approximately 10 hours per week for ten weeks applying their traumatology knowledge and skills in working with traumatized clients.