Program Overview

Resilience and Trauma-Informed Perspectives, Certificate

Overview

The undergraduate Certificate in Resilience and Trauma-Informed Perspectives requires 18 s.h. of coursework. Students must maintain a grade-point average of at least 2.00 in work for the certificate. The certificate may be earned by any student admitted to the University of Iowa who is not enrolled in a UI graduate or professional degree program. Undergraduate to Graduate (U2G) students may earn the certificate when the undergraduate classification is primary.

Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the certificate program will be able to:

• describe adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the influence they have on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual outcomes in childhood and adulthood;
• identify their own trauma, if any, and learn how to process it to become healthier and more resilient in their own lives;
• describe resiliency, its dynamics, and ways to strengthen resiliency;
• analyze strategies to decrease or eliminate trauma in society including learning how to create trauma-informed organizations; and
• describe the impact of ACEs on communities and formulate strategies to prevent ACEs in communities and their field of practice.

Required Courses

The Certificate in Resilience and Trauma-Informed Perspectives requires two core courses, both offered online.

• SSW:2700/PSQF:2700: Introduction to Understanding Trauma and Resilience (3 hours)
• CSED:4173: Trauma Across the Lifespan (3 hours)

Electives

At least 12 s.h. from the following:

• SSW:1200: Mental Health Across the Lifespan (3 hours)
• SSW:3786/ASP:3786: Death/Dying: Issues Across the Life Span (3-4 hours)
• SSW:3796: Family Violence (3 hours)
• SSW:3797: Child Welfare Policy and Practice (3 hours)
• SSW:3900: Campus Sexual Assault: Policy, Prevention, and Intervention (3 hours)
• ANTH:2164/GHS:2164: Culture and Healing: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology (3 hours)
• ASP:3150: Psychology of Aging (3 hours)
• CCCC:2220: Foundations of Critical Cultural Competence (3 hours)
• COMM:2015: Communication and Resilience (3 hours)
• CRIM:3414: Criminology of Genocide (3 hours)
• CRIM:3425: Women, Crime, and Justice (3 hours)
• CRIM:4300: Gender and Violence (3 hours)
• CSED:4113: Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, and Sleep Disorders (3 hours)
• CSED:4131: Loss, Death, and Bereavement (3 hours)
• CSED:4174: Positive Psychology (3 hours)
• CSED:4176: Child Abuse: Assessment, Intervention, and Advocacy (3 hours)
• GHS:3660: Social Environmental Health Risks and Community Engagement (3 hours)
• OEH:4510/CPH:4230/EPID:4510: Injury and Violence Prevention (3 hours)
• PSY:2701: Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience (4 hours)
• PSY:3075: The Damaged Brain (3 hours)
• PSY:3330: Childhood Psychopathology (3 hours)
• RHET:2350: Forensic Rhetoric (when topic is memory, storytelling, and archives) (3 hours)
• SJUS:3400/GWSS:3400: Advocacy and Engagement Colloquium (1-3 hours)
• TR:2077: Children and Families in Healthcare (3 hours)
• Independent study in the Rape Victim Advocacy Training Program (consult certificate coordinator)
• Additional related courses (consult certificate coordinator for approval)
• May include one of the following:
  • SSW:3729: Substance Use and Abuse (3 hours)
  • SSW:4155: Treatment of Substance Use and Co-Occurring Disorders (3 hours)
  • CSED:4132: Introduction to Addictions and Impulse Control Disorders (3 hours)
  • CSED:4185: Introduction to Substance Abuse (3 hours)