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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
A course designed to introduce students to effective procedures for understanding and addressing the unique developmental crises and tasks adolescents face. It explores strategies for assessing the psychological needs and problems of adolescents, as well as the skills needed for addressing these through counseling, group, skill-building, social, and instructional interventions. Special emphasis is given to understanding today’s youth culture and developing a “street-smart” approach to building relationships with youth.
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2.00 Credits
A course that explores the problem of domestic violence and abuse, and its effects on families. Therapeutic approaches from a biblical perspective for victims, perpetrators, and their families are explored, as well as the dynamics of abusive relationships and strategies for treating them. It also emphasizes strategies for developing and providing personal, spiritual, family, church, and community resources and support to individuals and families experiencing domestic violence and/or abuse.
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2.00 Credits
A course that equips students with the principles and strategies for designing and implementing psychoeducational programs that strengthen and assist families. Special emphasis is given to designing education and enrichment programs in parenting effectiveness, marriage enrichment, divorce-recovery, pre-marriage preparation, and family problem-solving and conflict-resolution.
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2.00 Credits
A course that provides advanced training for students in assessing and treating parent-child problems encountered in marriage and family counseling. Special attention is given to understanding the psychology of parenthood and counseling strategies for helping parents deal with childhood problems like defiance, attention-deficits, anxiety, and compulsions, and with the special problems associated with single and step-parenting. Consideration is also given to counseling strategies with children using play therapy, as well as the ethical and practical issues that must be addressed when counseling minors.
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2.00 Credits
A course that provides advanced training for students in addressing special problems encountered when counseling couples. Students explore counseling strategies for assessing and treating separating or divorcing couples, extra-marital affairs, couples with chronic illnesses, and couples with sexual problems or problems related to infertility.
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2.00 Credits
A course that provides students with a minimum of 300 hours of supervised field experience in settings in which marriage and family counseling services are being provided. Field experience may involve assisting in providing counseling services to couples or families, serving in support roles to marriage and family counselors, and/or observing the delivery of marriage or family counseling services by counselors. Students meet with faculty supervisors for evaluation of their field experiences.
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2.00 Credits
A course that introduces students to the common theories and practices for assisting individuals with planning careers and/or solving career problems. It equips students with a structural-interactive model for career development counseling that takes into account personality type, work environment, and developmental stages.
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2.00 Credits
A course that gives students an overview of the theory and procedures for assessing and counseling individuals with sexual problems. Special attention is given to counseling individuals with sexual identity and impulse problems.
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2.00 Credits
A course that provides advanced training for counseling students in methods of assessment, case formulation, and management of treatment for individuals with any of three categories of DSM-IV disorders: depression, anxiety, or impulse control problems. Special attention is given to the assessment and treatment of substance abuse disorders.
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2.00 Credits
A course that explores and evaluates the philosophical tenets and clinical applications of the major psychotherapeutic approaches commonly used today by counselors and therapists. Each theory is reviewed from both a biblical and research perspective and explored for practical applications to Christian counseling settings.
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