TH664T
Trauma and Theodicy
0.5 Credit

Trauma and Theodicy introduces students to trauma and theodicy, and explores spiritual care and psychotherapeutic approaches to recovery and healing. This course will integrate two psychotherapy approaches to trauma treatment: (1) the feminist clinical psychotherapy based on the Stages of Recovery, and (2) the spiritual approach based on Post Jungian Analytical Psychology Model. The course focusses on domestic violence, child/adult emotional-physical-sexual abuse, trauma as a result of war, criminality, political terror, vicarious trauma, and self-care. Traumatic experiences often result in the disruption of previous understanding and assumptions regarding the client's worldview. The course explores theodicy as it relates to the loss of meaning, the experience of God and how to facilitate a different understanding that can become a resource for the client.