International Association for Resilience and Trauma Counseling
A Division of the American Counseling Association
IARTC Mission: To enhance the quality of life for people and communities worldwide by promoting the development
of professional counselors, advancing ACA, the counseling profession, and the ethical practice of
counseling through trauma-informed practices, respect for human dignity, cultural inclusivity,
and resilience.
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To the good people in Ukraine, please know that many in the world stand with you. You are in our hearts and minds daily. There is a group of Professional Mental Health Counselors in the United States that particularly understands the kind of strain you are bravely enduring now. We are the International Association for Resilience and Trauma Counseling, an Affiliate of the American Counseling Association. We hope we can share with you resources and human contact for healing in the near future. The days are long and the nights are darker now. We stand with you and hope for the sunrise that brings peace, security, grace, and encouragement for all of you. It will be a long road, and we hope that we can walk that road with you, when the time comes, in any way that we can. Ϲлава Україні!
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's
life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
IARTC is committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Understanding, and Empathy. We work to promote ethnic and racial empathy and understanding. IARTC continues to advocate, advance, and improve educational, professional, and leadership opportunities for members from diverse cultural backgrounds. IARTC denounces all forms of racism.
The vision of IARTC, in accordance with the purpose of ACA, is to:
Promote greater awareness and understanding of traumatic stress, as defined by current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Promote the recognition of resilience and traumatology as a specialization requiring focused training and supervision in the counseling profession and related helping fields
Globally promote the professional development of resilience and trauma-competent counselors and counselor educators
Advocate for the profession of resilience and trauma-focused counseling
Contribute to the knowledge base of resilience and trauma studies
Ensure ethical, culturally inclusive resilience and trauma-informed practices that protect those using counseling services
Advance appropriate assessment, prevention, and intervention strategies for counseling in response to traumatic experiences in ways that promote positive development, resilience, and wellness of people across the lifespan
Disseminate educational and professional materials with the purpose of raising the standards of practice in trauma and resilience counseling, education, supervision, and mental health care across the world.