Online Program
The Multitiered Approach to Trauma Graduate Certificate is an online, five-course program designed to prepare you to implement trauma-informed practices and policies within your professional practice.
This certificate was designed with busy working professionals and students in mind, offering maximum flexibility to accommodate your demanding schedule. The online curriculum allows students the flexibility to work around their busy schedule, time zone, and professional demands.
Did You Know?
Trauma is a global public health crisis that has only increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. Adverse childhood experiences, or ACES, refers to specific traumatic experiences a person experiences in childhood. In the United States alone, over 60% of adults surveyed have at least one type of adverse childhood experience before the age of 18 and 1 in 6 adults report having experienced four or more types of ACES (CDC, 2022).
History Does Not Define The Future
Childhood trauma has lasting impacts that can permeate into adulthood, communities, and society at large. However, childhood trauma can be prevented, and the negative outcomes can be mitigated. A history of trauma does not have to define a person’s future. Healthy opportunities for people, families, and society occur when healthcare systems, education systems, community centers, child welfare organizations, family support organizations, mental health providers, and policy leaders adopt trauma-responsive and trauma-informed practices. This certificate is designed to equip professionals across a variety of settings to be a part of the positive change needed in our communities.
Who Should Apply?
This program is for anyone who wants to be an agent of positive change within their professional journey. This program’s innovative design allows student participants to customize their learning to meet their specific professional and learning needs.
All students receive the same foundational course during the first three semesters. The last two semesters, students focus their learning on applying core knowledge to their specific profession and setting.
This program is not limited to any specific field of study. It is highly recommended for anyone in any profession within a healthcare, education, public health, child welfare, mental health, or policy and leadership setting.
Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics™
The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT™) is a trauma-informed, developmentally-sensitive, approach to the clinical problem solving process. It is not, and does not specifically imply, endorse, or require any single therapeutic technique or method, but offers an integrative therapeutic framework for guiding the application of existing interventions according to the individual’s needs.
The goal of this approach is to structure a full picture of a person, their primary concerns, identification of key strengths, and the application of interventions (educational, enrichment and therapeutic) in a way that will help family, educators, therapists and related professionals best meet the needs of the child or adult.
Semesters 4 and 5 focus on applying the multitiered approach to trauma to their own practice area and context. Students of the Multitiered Approach to Trauma Graduate Certificate will have the option in semesters 4 and 5 of this program to complete the Phase I training in the NMT™. The courses are taught by phase II NMT™ trainer Rebecca Rampe, PsyD, a clinical psychologist at UAB.