IECD-531 Maltreatment Trauma and Loss4 semester credits
This cross-cultural class focuses on child maltreatment, trauma, and loss. We currently live in a world in which there are few places that are without some type of violence and deprivation that are depriving families of their right to live in peace and safety. There are children across the world who live under conditions of deprivation including starvation, danger, poor education, and poor health care. Children across cultures are losing their caregivers and do not have the opportunities to live in caring and loving families in the context of supportive community environments and larger cultural systems. We are recognizing that there is a relationship between conditions of maltreatment, trauma, and loss and the development of later psychopathology.
It will also focus on the effect of these experiences on development through later childhood and the impact on the family. Topics including neurodevelopment (nature/nurture, developmental sequences, sensitive and critical developmental periods) will be studied and the effect of trauma, maltreatment, and loss will be discussed in the context of each of these factors.
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):
Students successfully completing this course will be able to:
- Develop an understanding of the definitional issues in child maltreatment.
- Develop an understanding of transactional theory and its relevance to the development of child maltreatment.
- Develop an understanding of the intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment.
- Develop an understanding of the antecedents of child maltreatment through parent-child relationships.
- Develop an understanding of prevention in child maltreatment.
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