Advancing Studies · Boston College
This course is designed to introduce students to the psychology of trauma and explore what it means to experience trauma, manage in the aftermath, and find paths to healing. Students will become familiar with the impact and nature of a variety of interpersonal psychological traumas, such as childhood abuse, intimate partner and domestic violence, transgenerational trauma, and race-based and gender-based trauma. The course will explore the evolution of our understanding of trauma, diagnosis of trauma, and treatment of trauma-related disorders. We will investigate the various outcomes of trauma,
