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SCWK 8820

Trauma Informed Psychosocial Interventions · 1 instructor on record · 4 sections

What the course score is made of

75BC evaluations4 records · weight ×1.0 · Summer 2022 – Summer 2025

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That is the class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it. Who taught it, and how each of them scored, is the board below — that is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between.

What the challenge rank is made of

3rdMore challenging than 3% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

76BC — “Intellectually Challenging”4 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.

What the workload rank is made of

30thMore work than 30% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

47BC — “Workload”4 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.

Elective This course provides a foundation for understanding and implementing mental health and psychosocial perspectives in adverse and systemically under-resourced contexts, and among culturally diverse populations in the United States and abroad. The interventions explored are grounded in a trauma-informed framework and designed for an array of settings such as immigrant detention, juvenile justice settings, child welfare, and places and populations affected by community violence, forced and irregular migration, and conflict. Frameworks and policy interventions that strengthen community resilience are integrated throughout. Throughout the course, consideration is given to how clinical and macro perspectives inform psychosocial interventions that are supported by current and emerging research evidence. The psychosocial interventions explored are relevant for both domestic and global practice, aligned with international standards and guidelines for psychosocial and mental health work in humanitarian settings. These standards include the Interagency Standing Committee (IASC) guidelines as well as those of WHO, UNHCR, UNICEF and SAMHSA. The course uses a biopsychosocial approach to understand how interventions improve outcomes at the individual, family, and community levels.

The only instructor on record

4 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Maryanne LoughrySocial Work	794 records	30th	3rd

There is no ranking to read here: Maryanne Loughry is the only instructor with evaluation records for SCWK 8820, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Maryanne Loughry

4 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
SCWK 7719Independent Study: International Policy	28 records	87
SCWK 8806Global Policy Issues and Implications	15 records	70
APSY 6461Psychological Responses to Humanitarian Crises	24 records	89
SCWK 8853Global Humanitarian Practice	13 records	82

Other SCWK classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
SCWK 8841Program Evaluation	2368 records	72
SCWK 7701The Social Welfare System	2966 records	72
SCWK 7722Psychosocial Pathology	1663 records	88
SCWK 7721Human Behavior and the Social Environment	1861 records	84
SCWK 7747Research Methods in Social Work Practice	1758 records	69
SCWK 7723Re-thinking Diversity: Systems of Oppression and Privilege	1755 records	85

The line

All 13 items · means across 4 records

The Professor4 items

Clearly Explains MaterialThe instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.

762nd pctl

Available Outside of ClassThe instructor was available for help outside of class.

8611th pctl

Brings Out Your Best WorkThe instructor motivated me to do my best work.

817th pctl

Sparked My InterestThe course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.

9025th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

745th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

701st pctl

Useful Beyond the CourseWhat I learned is applicable beyond this course.

8824th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

8728th pctl

Gives Feedback PromptlyI received feedback on my work in a timely manner.

8523rd pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

733rd pctl

Workload, difficulty & attendanceNot ratings

WorkloadHow much work the course took outside class, on Boston College's five-band scale — the band boundaries are not published, so this is not a number of hours.

4730th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

763rd pctl

Attendance MattersAttending class was necessary to do well in this course.

9355th pctl

Bar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.

Game log

4 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Maryanne Loughry	Summer 2025	01	87	80	40
Maryanne Loughry	Summer 2024	01	80	77	40
Maryanne Loughry	Summer 2023	01	89	89	—
Maryanne Loughry	Summer 2022	01	60	56	60

How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.