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2.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
Orients students to the concepts within adult learning, team building and how to succeed in the Masters in Counseling Program. Provides basic expectations for writing graduate-level papers. Focuses on APA manuscript style, methods for strengthening academic writing, improved insight, development of effective time management, good self-care, and spiritual growth throughout graduate study and a career in counseling.
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3.00 Credits
First class in a a series of Counseling Skills courses. Students learn basic listening skills, attending behavior, the structure and frame of therapy, questioning skills, and reflecting skills. Students apply what they are learning in simulated counseling sessions. Emphasis is placed on developing personal insight and self-care strategies.
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3.00 Credits
Examines legal and ethical issues in the context of professional counseling utilizing real-life examples and case studies. Students will review Oregon law related to counseling, as well as American Counseling Association ethical code. Topics include privacy and confidentiality, duty to warn, abuse reporting procedures, licensure and certification, boundaries in therapeutic relationships, and counselor health and welfare.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced research methodology and statistical applications in psychological research including qualitative and quantitative approaches. Focus is placed on understanding and critically interpreting research studies.
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3.00 Credits
Builds on the content from Basic Counseling Skills & the Helping Relationship. Students receive further instruction in reframing content, questioning and paraphrasing skills, and treatment planning. Focus on specific mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety, and trauma-related problems and how they are treated in the context of brief therapy models. Treatment planning reflects best practices as evidenced by current research. Prerequisite: COU510 Basic Counseling Skills & the Helping Relationship
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1.00 Credits
Introduces students to the counseling environment and encourages them to apply what they are learning to an individual client under close supervision of faculty supervisors. Students begin their practicum experience by seeing a client from the Multnomah community weekly in the program's on-site training clinic. Students must accrue at least 25 clock hours (including a minimum of 12 client contact hours over the 3 classes, supervision and paperwork). In supervision sessions, students learn to conceptualize individual cases, to consider ethical and legal implications, and to apply their foundational coursework.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of basic diagnostic criteria. Students learn to identify and diagnose common forms of mental disorders, utilizing the DSM-IV-TR and to write a treatment plan based on current research.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of theories of counseling from a historical-chronological perspective. Specific orientations include family systems, Adlerian, humanistic-existential, person-centered, psychoanalytic, a variety of cognitive-behavioral appoaches to counseling, as well as various Christian models of therapy. As students are exposed to these models, they are encouraged to incoporate and integrate their biblical understanding, their faith, and their values about the human change process, with these theories in order to begin to develop their own theoretical orientation to counseling.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on problems & issues arising from values & assumptions that affect counseling with individuals & families of different social & ethnic origins. Course considers issues raised in multicultural counseling & develops sensitivity to social, spiritual, psychological and physical issues pertinent to a therapist working wtih ethnic minority clients. This is aimed at increasing awareness of one's own cultural worldview, how it affects social interactions, developing specialized knowledge about a particular culture, & increasing multicultural counseling skill awareness & technique. Also the relationship of Christianity to other cultures will be considered.
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