This course is designed to introduce students to various ways of assisting clients and communities to lessen the impact of crises. The students will be introduced to counselling techniques and tools to ease the debilitating effects of crisis situations. The student will be introduced to the effects of crises and restorative techniques in working with clients and communities. This course offers the student an opportunity to manage the client’s symptoms of traumatic stress in a creative life-affirming way. Understanding healing as a creative process is basic to the therapeutic practice. It requires time, the desire to reach a new level of self-awareness, an active search for knowledge, and problem solving skills.
