May 01, 2026  
Graduate Catalog 2025-2026 
    
Graduate Catalog 2025-2026

COU 557 - Child Trauma Effects Across the Lifespan


This course provides an understanding of the environmental factors that contribute to and constitute adverse childhood experiences, and the effects on children’s development and subsequent behavior.  Discussion will include attachment theory and the influence of attachment on development, historical and contemporary research on adverse childhood experiences and subsequent mental health and illness, and an overview of prevention and intervention, and treatment.

3 Credits.