PSY 595 - Graduate Field Placement (Trauma Studies)

Catalog Year: 2019-2020

Semester long field placement with ten hours per week of on-site training, totaling 120 hours with an agency that serves a trauma affected population. Training will focus on informative experiences regarding level appropriate (non-clinical) trauma service, program or needs assessment and evaluation, continuing education, resource and referral activities. (Up to one third of the training experience for the field placement may be provided through a one to three week immersion field experience with international or national trauma affected survivor populations and their care providers (i.e., Haitian nationals, consultants, and in-country site mentors from mental health and other relief agencies or institutions). Permission for the immersion experience to be credited towards a portion of the field placement must be sought prior to the placement. Only students preapproved for participation in the immersion travel away experiences may participate. Faculty mentors will accompany students to the travel away field placements and work with local site mentors, and consultants to supervise the student training).

Prerequisite: Students in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Trauma Studies program; or Graduate standing; or Non-matriculated graduate students; or Senior status; and PSY 552 and a graduate diversity course in trauma either PSY 559 (CPS 595) Ethnocultural Aspects of Trauma: Marginalized/Racial Groups (for eligibility for the New Orleans Katrina field or other national placement portion); or PSY 559 (CPS 595) Ethnocultural Aspects of Trauma: Focus on Haiti (for eligibility for the Haitian field placement portion) or permission of instructor.
Credit: 3