Trauma Certificate

Why Pursue a Trauma Certificate?

The Trauma Certificate offers trauma-informed training for mental health and humanitarian aid professionals from a Christian worldview.

The nine-credit graduate Trauma Certificate equips practitioners to work with individuals who have been impacted by a wide array of traumatic experiences on a global scale.

The Trauma Certificate may be pursued by current students and alumni of the School of Psychology, Counseling, and Family therapy and the Humanitarian Disaster Leadership graduate programs. Additionally, currently-practicing providers in mental health related disciplines, pastors providing counseling and care, and humanitarian aid professionals are encouraged to consider adding this valuable Trauma Certificate to their credentials.*

Overall, this certificate program will help prepare Christian professionals to provide care to a hurting world in service of Christ and His Kingdom and the global church.

* non-Wheaton student enrollees must have at least a master's-level education to pursue the Trauma Certificate.

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Partnership with the Humanitarian Disaster Institute

Because trauma-informed care is one of the most necessary components of humanitarian and disaster response, the School of Psychology, Counseling, and Family Therapy has partnered with the Humanitarian Disaster Institute's (HDI) M.A. in Humanitarian and Disaster Leadership (HDL) to offer the Trauma Certificate in a specialized track specifically tailored to humanitarian and disaster responders.

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