Curriculum (Mini Courses)
Howard Be Thy Name
The supplemental curriculums, Child Sexual Abuse and Breaking the Silence Within And Outside the Family and Clergy Child Sexual Abuse provide instructors a two week long mini course consisting of six hours (based on two three hour classes) of material and approximately four hours of independent work for students. The curriculum help instructors explore their own ideas and their student’s ideas about child sexual abuse and and non-offending family member trauma. These mini-courses are guided by the 2017 World Health Organization’s Clinical Guidelines: Responding to Children and Adolescents Who Have Been Sexually Abused.
Child Sexual Abuse and Breaking the Silence Within And Outside the Family
In this mini-course, instructors will explore:
- Family Dynamics that create and sustain a conspiracy of silence that suppresses or silences child victims from disclosing sexual abuse.
- Stages of Healing for Victims and Non-Offending Family Members
- Best Practices for Trauma-Informed Care at Time of Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse
Clergy Child Sexual Abuse
In this mini-course, instructors will explore:
- Understanding the clergy child sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.
- Understand the stages of healing for families with victims of clergy sexual abuse.