SWK 341 - Trauma Informed Child Welfare

Credit Hours: 3

Provides future child welfare practitioners with foundational knowledge related to trauma and child traumatic stress. Focuses on utilizing a trauma lens to examine practice with children and families within the child welfare system and the role of the social worker in effectively identifying traumatic stress, responding to children and families in a trauma-informed manner, and ensuring that they receive trauma-specific treatment services.

Prerequisite: SWK 305