Advanced Child Therapy

Catalog description

This course provides exposure, practice, and research on therapeutic orientation and techniques with children and adolescents. Focus will be on how to incorporate developmental models into conceptualization, treatment planning, and treatment outcome, and on current evidence-based counseling and intervention methods. Additional areas of focus will include discussion about ethical issues in treatment with minors, involving family/caregivers/school-based systems, accessing community supports, and the impact of diversity on the child’s functioning and treatment. Prerequisites PSYCG 1502 Life Span Development I and PSYCG 1530 Introduction to Psychotherapy