Please see our general tips for educating students about trauma, as well as various undergraduate, graduate, and seminar syllabi below. In addition, there is an extensive collection of training videos that may be helpful teaching tools for you classroom.

Course and Seminar Syllabi

Undergraduate class syllabi

• The Impact of Trauma on the Individual and Society
• Handling Trauma in Counseling
• Sociology - Trauma and Society
• Psychology of Stress and Trauma
• Special Topics/Seminar in Psychology: PTSD
• Science of Resilience

Undergraduate/graduate syllabi

• Psychology of Trauma
• Trauma Psychology
• Trauma and Resiliency

Graduate class syllabi

• Special Topics: Working with Trauma in Clinical Practice
• Trauma and Resilience
• Trauma and Dissociation
• Trauma-Focused Approaches to Intervention
• Advanced Trauma-Focused Approaches to Intervention
• Trauma Seminar
• Traumatic Stress
• Assessment and Treatment of Trauma
• Clinical Case Seminar in Trauma Studies: Transdisciplinary Reappraisals of Clinical Work
• Trauma: Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives
• Crisis and Disaster Interventions
• Trauma Across the Lifespan
• Trauma and Resilience
• Trauma Focused Approaches to Psychological Interventions I
• Trauma Focused Approaches to Psychological Interventions II

Syllabi collection

• Bethany Brand's TeachTrauma site also contains a variety of course syllabi and other helpful information on teaching trauma in an academic setting.

Video Collection

The Center for the Treatment of Developmental Trauma Disorders, a treatment and services adaptation center in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network has developed a library of 50+ films of therapy sessions and dialogues amongst therapists, youth, and caregivers that are designed for pre-professional and professional education by bringing to life the experience of doing trauma-focused psychogherapy with children, youth, and young adults who are courageously recovering from complex trauma — and also dealing with ongoing adversity and complex trauma — and their adult caregivers. The films feature more than 25 outstanding therapists from diverse personal backgrounds and professional orientations, who are meeting in real-time with clients in crisis.  The clients are portrayed by actors to protect privacy and safety, but the sessions and the commentaries/dialogues afterward are spontaneous and real.  We invite educators, trainers, and professionals in practice and in training to view these films at no cost — and to utilize them in trainings and classes -- by going to the CTDTD website (above) or the Critical Moments and Healing Developmental Trauma pages in the Clinical Resources section of the NCTSN Learning Center.