Treatment Planning in Clinical Mental Health Counseling

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This course is advanced study in theoretical techniques and interventions in counseling to treat psychopathology as defined in the DSM 5. This course will provide students with an understanding of abnormal behavior including the etiology, diagnoses, and implications for treatment. Students will review topics associated with specific disorders including the prevalence, diagnostic symptoms, risk factors, psychosocial implications, psychopharmological treatments, and best practice, evidence-based therapeutic interventions. Students will develop a treatment plan for specific diagnoses. Experiential in nature, the course will help students integrate diagnostic, case conceptualization, and treatment planning skills, and review empirically-supported treatments and best practices for measuring client outcomes in a managed care context. Prerequisite(s): COUN 6680 >= C and COUN 6800 >= C Lecture Hours: 3 Repeatability: May not be repeated for credit. Grade Mode: Normal, Audit Major Restrictions: Counselor Education-EDS, Counselor Education Course Level Restrictions: Graduate Semester Schedule Type (Primary): Lecture Schedule Type (Additional): Lecture/Supervised Lab/Clinic,Lecture/Unsupervi Lab/Clinic,Seminar-Small Group,Supervised Lab/Clinic,Unsupervised Lab/Clinic,Independent Study,Directed Study (one-to-one),Asynchronous Instruction,Practice Teaching,Internship/Practicum,Thesis, Click here for the Schedule of Classes.