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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Group development, group dynamics, group counseling theories, and ethical issues pertaining to group work. Students can apply their growing knowledge of group counseling by practicing the skills necessary for forming, leading, and evaluating groups in a variety of work settings. Significant portion of class time (minimum of 10 clock hours) participating in small group experiences. Prerequisite: COUN541 or COUN528.
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3.00 Credits
The key theories of career development and an examination of the sources useful for the career/lifestyle development of various populations throughout the lifespan. Makes connections and shows the interrelationships between the theoretical and the practical focuses of career/life development.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the fields of community and school counseling. Provides an understanding of the many functions that counselors engage in when working in community and school settings. Counselor roles, the history of the profession, the school guidance movement, the community model of preventive and remedial service delivery, developmental guidance and the professional identity of the counselor are addressed.
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3.00 Credits
Acquaints the novice counselor with the basic counseling skills necessary for counseling and consulting in a multicultural society. Theories of individual and systemic change guide the application of helping relationship skills in counseling and consultation. Active listening, reflection of feeling, confrontation, interpretation, diagnostic interviewing, and crisis intervention skills are discussed, demonstrated, and practiced. Ethnic culture, race, gender, and sexual orientation variables are addressed in the context of the intentionality of the interviewing process. Students are expected to participate actively in exercises, to role play, and to engage in a process of self-understanding and self-assessment.
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3.00 Credits
The principle theories of personality, understanding the relationship of a given theory to its model of counseling, and the beginning choice of a preferred model of personality that may help guide the student's counseling behavior. Emphasis on how personality theory is used as a ground for counseling theory, and specific ways it influences positive outcomes of clients.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of individual and group approaches to assessment and evaluation that addresses the selection, interpretation, and communication of assessment methods. Psychological, psychiatric, environmental, academic, social, and familial factors in assessment will be examined. Prerequisite: COUN541 and COUN552.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of human development throughout the lifetime in the family, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual and theological context. The individual and family life cycles are viewed as mutually interactive processes which are also affected by such factors as biology/ genetics, gender, race, ethnicity, acculturation, religion, etc. The development of the individual is traced chronologically through a survey of a select number of major theoretical approaches. The family and other factors influencing and generated by the individual's developmental tasks are explored concurrently. This exploration serves as a backdrop for client assessment and conceptualization. Prerequisite: COUN528
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2.00 Credits
Uses dreamwork to foster holistic growth and development, identify emotional and spiritual issues, and help plan and implement shortterm counseling modalities. Students are introduced to more than 20 proven dreamwork techniques for working with clients individually and in groups, including ways to resolve recurring dreams and nightmares, relate clients to the expressive arts, introduce Jungian archetypes, and release energy and insight from dream symbols.
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3.00 Credits
Information on in-depth assessment, intervention, and treatment for a broad understanding of clinical work in this field. Opportunities to develop and share specific interests are provided.
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3.00 Credits
Friendships, married/committed couples, families, teams (including workplace teams), and intentional communities are examined from the viewpoint that a conscious, serious relationship is itself a psychological and spiritual reality transcending the reality of the individuals involved. Such relationships have their own unique needs, talents, and properties; their own attitudes, preferences and values; their own meaning and purpose, even their own destiny. Helps counselors distinguish issues that belong to the client from issues that belong primarily to a relationship.
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