Post Traumatic Stress Response: Personal to Professional

Today’s social climate is one defined by traumatic events. As educators it is our responsibility to provide students with the tools necessary to address traumatic material on a micro, mezzo and macro level. These tools involve the identification of personal and professional responses specific to critical incidents. As discipline specific boundaries overlap, our need to provide a concise response that makes efficient use of personal and professional scarce resources increase. The issues involved in critical incidents are so complex that they transcend the boundaries inherent in any academic institution. In others words, knowledge and methods of many disciplines are required to engage in systematic analysis of critical incidents. The goal of the learning community to is synthesize knowledge to underscore common properties, threads and issues with respect to both critical incidents and their impacts. The faculty participating will share respective expertise and engage with outside experts. This will allow faculty to develop a more systemic, interdisciplinary view of trauma that will be used enhance curriculum in respective disciplines. In addition, the learning community will conduct a workshop for Oakland University faculty and staff that will focus on critical incident response from personal to global implications.

For more information about this Faculty Learning Community e-mail Lisa Dalton.

Schedule
To Be Determined