PSYC 305 - Counseling Practicum

Institution:

Point Park University

Subject:

PSYCHOLOGY

Description:

Designed to develop and sharp the skills necessary for working with people. Course Objectives (1) Correctly identify the essentials to effective counseling, correctly make use of interpersonal and therapeutic skills, and correctly demonstrate case formulations. (2) Grasp basic counseling/therapeutic skills and concepts as well as humanistic, existential, cognitive, and psychodynamic elements of case formulation. (3) Demonstrate effective counseling/therapeutic skills and also demonstrate ethical relations with others including responsible awareness and sensitivity to gender, race, and ethnic differences, sexual preferences and variation, cross-cultural differentiation and all forms of diversity. (4) Correctly identify and interpret counseling skills, psychodynamics, intervention, existential givens within course texts, role-plays, and film. (5) Synthesize humanistic, existential, cognitive, and psychodynamic elements of course text, and class notes, with their own beginning therapeutic skills. (6) Demonstrate ethical and responsible relations with others and offer critical thinking in regard to effective therapy.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pointpark.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 391-4100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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