Overview
OVERVIEW This course is designed to help support your individual skill set in treating trauma and trauma responses as it ties to your worldview and counseling identity. As doctoral students, it is vital that your approach to treating clients who have suffered trauma and teaching trauma treatment modalities to other professionals reflects the current evidence base in the field of counseling. The Reflection Journal assignments are intended to help you synthesize the reading you are doing in the course in a way that offers you the freedom to explore the topics as they relate to your own personal theory of counseling and how the learning will impact your work with clients who have suffered trauma. The Reflection Journals should be written in APA formatting and include a scholarly review of what you have read that specifically is impacting your conceptualization of trauma and the treatment of trauma and trauma responses in clients.
INSTRUCTIONS After you read your texts and review your online materials for the assigned Modules: Weeks, you will write a journal entry that answers the questions posed in the Reflection Journal Template. ? Each Reflection Journal Assignment should be 3 to 5 pages in length o Not including title page or references section ? Please follow current APA format including Running Head, Title Page, Introduction, Conclusion, APA style paragraphs and writing, references, and transitions throughout. ? There is no specific number of citations required, but APA format should be carefully adhered to with a focus on using a reference to scholarly sources throughout. ? Acceptable sources for this assignment include course learning, articles or publications from traumatology experts, Christian counseling authors, biblical scholars, and other scholarly publications. Sources from outside the course should be no more than 5 years since publication. Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
REFLECTION JOURNAL TEMPLATE Please answer the following for each Reflection Journal Assignment: (a) What 3 key ideas have you gained from the Modules: Weeks’ materials since your last Reflection Journal, and why are these ideas important? (b) What Christian worldview integration research or scholarly perspective from biblical or Christian counseling experts relate to what you have learned from the course material?
Reflection Journal 3 Modules 7 – 8: Weeks 7 – 8 For Modules 5 – 8: Weeks 5 – 8, you will continue with the assigned readings on the Course Schedule and read the information in each module in addition to the Christian Worldview Resources folder. You can continue to discuss how the main theory of the 3, Prolonged Exposure Cognitive Processing Therapy, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing relate to the learning in Modules 5 – 8: Weeks 5 – 8, or you may focus exclusively on the new content you are learning in these modules. Here, the goal is for you to learn in-depth about the modalities you are most interested in and synthesize the learning to tie into the final project in which you will discuss how the learning in the course regarding the major and evidence based theories in treating trauma and how these might fit with your current theory of counseling.
Module 8 readings and videos:
- External UrlRead: How to Use Fraser's Dissociative Table Technique to Access and Work With Emotional Parts of the Personality
- External UrlRead: Treating Trauma After Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Links to an external site.
- PageWatch: How Should a Counsellor Care For Oneself While Helping a Person Suffering from Complex Trauma?
- External UrlWatch: Attachment Issues: Embracing Disowned Parts