Trauma and Crisis Counseling - MS in Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling

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If traumas or crises are not resolved in healthy ways, the experiences can lead to lasting psychological, social, and medical problems for couples, families, and children. Through this specialization, students will gain the knowledge, skills, and practices specific to crisis counseling, including theories of crisis intervention and models for working with children and adolescents. Students will also learn to help couples and families address health-related, school, and mental health crises, including intervention with suicidal clients and victims of abuse.