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This course will review topics and problems of current concern in counseling, research, and evaluation, including: design strategies, instrumentation, data analysis, significant studies, and other research is- sues. Students will propose a counseling research project as part of the course.
This course will present theories and research on the nature and needs of individuals at all levels of development, including intellectual, social, emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of development. The development of normal and abnormal behavior, personality theory, and learning theory will also be discussed.
In this course, students will study the professional codes of ethics and standards of practice of the American Counseling Association (ACA). Students will become familiar with the licensure requirements and legal responsibilities of counselors.
This course entails an in-depth study of the role of the counselor, the theory, and the techniques of the major models of individual counseling. These models include the phenomenological-existential, behavioral, psychodynamic, social-psychological, reality, and rational emotive approaches to counseling.
This course will involve an in-depth study of the role of the counselor, the theory, and the techniques of marriage and family or systems approaches to counseling. These approaches include the structural, strategic, multi-generational, and other models.
This skill development course is based on a "beginning, middle, and end" model of the counseling process that will be examined from different theoretical perspectives. This experience is intended to serve as an introduction to the basic and trans-theoretical skills and methods for initiating, maintaining, and terminating therapeutic relationships. Students will be required to explore and demonstrate basic counseling skills that are associated with each of these three stages. Emphasis will be given to skills associated with initiating, structuring, attending, listening, encouraging, supporting, confronting, influencing, problem solving, and termination.
This introduction to basic appraisal techniques will focus on diagnostic interviewing; the use of rating scales; intelligence, personality (objective and projective), aptitude, and achievement measures in psychological and educational testing; and the interpretation of psychological reports. The process of mental status examinations and the use of the DSM and ICD-9 & 10 classification systems will also be presented.
This course is designed to equip the student with the necessary knowledge, skills, techniques, attitudes, and ethical standards for counseling clients regarding lifestyle and career decisions.