Compassionate communication: Integrating trauma-informed care into speech-language pathology counseling education

This one-hour professional education session will outline trauma-informed care (TIC) as a framework for providing pre- and post-professional graduate counseling education. Instructors will provide personal examples from their counseling courses as exemplars for instruction at the Master’s and SLPD levels. The presentation will highlight trauma-informed pedagogical approaches to support and augment the instructor/student therapeutic alliance, support health and human service provider wellbeing, and enhance the client/clinician relationship. Concepts covered will include course design and rationale, ethics and scope of practice, multi-cultural issues, program evaluation, lessons learned, and future directions for counseling/TIC education.