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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

PSY 3420 - The Psychology of Trauma

Credits: 4
Explores the psychology of trauma and human resilience. This course explores the range of posttraumatic reactions to a variety of situations as they affect cognitive, emotional, somatic, and interpersonal aspects of functioning. Students will be exposed to an overview of the etiology of and prevailing theories about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Factors contributing to the resilience to trauma as well as societal, cultural, and historical influences on views of trauma will also be discussed.
Prerequisite(s): PSY 1000  and PSY 2460