This online course aims to teach BYU MSW students how to effectively work with clients who have experienced trauma. Students will learn about the most effective and efficacious trauma treatments by reading book chapters and articles, completing formal trainings, watching videos, and writing papers. By the end of this course, students will have received multiple trauma certificates, including TF-CBT; CPT; complex trauma; secondary traumatic stress; culture and trauma; family systems; terrorism, disaster and children; and military families. This course will teach students to view client mental distress symptoms through a trauma lens, and prepare students to work with clients who have experienced diverse forms of trauma. The completion of this class will help students meet the requirements for the BYU MSW Trauma-Informed Clinical Social Work Practice Certificate.

Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior

Competency 2: Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice

Competency 3: Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice

Competency 4: Engage in Practice-Informed Research and Research-Informed Practice

Competency 6: Engage with Individuals, families, group, organizations, and communities

Competency 7: Assess Individuals, families, group, organizations, and communities

Competency 8: Intervene with Individuals, families, group, organizations, and communities