Counseling

Designed to introduce students to the Counseling profession and to acquaint them with the history, structure, practices, standards, values and ethics of the counselor.

Special needs and considerations for counseling with Women addressed, including: violence against women, women living in poverty, health concerns, infertility, motherhood, development and aging, racial-ethnic differences, inhibited anger, envy, success or inhibition, gender stereotypes, and more. Feminist psychoanalysis emphasized.

Course will cover theories and research regarding effective helping skills. Students will practice helping skills with each other and will conduct research projects evaluating their helping skills. The course is divided into a didactic and experimential component.

An examination of group development theories, leadership, ethical and professional issues in groups. Students will apply learned group leadership skills within the classroom setting.

Course explores historical and contemporary issues related to providing culturally congruent/competent human services with myriad populations. The impact of socio-identities (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, religion, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and disability) will be examined, considering individual, group, and macro-system functioning.

Not your average abnormal psychology class. Application of diagnostic systems of mental illness to counseling practice. Experiential and didactic learning methods elucidate the etiology and treatment of mental illness. Great course if planning to pursue psychology, social work, counseling, or other helping professions.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and techniques associated with Motivational Interviewing. Motivational Interviewing is a person-centered style of counseling for eliciting and strengthening a person's own motivation for and commitment to change.

Examines the principles of general systems theory as it applies to working with multi-person client systems in therapy.