HSED 667 - Sexual Trauma and Treatment

3 Credit(s)

This is a beginning to intermediate level clinical/education course focusing on the significant consequences when individuals have experienced interpersonal trauma and the impact on their sexuality/interpersonal relationship development. Trauma events addressed include physical, sexual, verbal, and significant neglect. Emphasis is on the implications for clinical/educational interventions during both the initial medical/legal/custodial processes following the trauma events and post-trauma events. Students learn evaluation of PTSD symptoms and effective interventions, useful cross-culturally, to reduce those symptoms in both the short- and long-term periods. The goal is to identify those interventions that are useful in helping the individual/system move toward healthy sexuality/relationship development.
Prerequisite(s): HSED 562.