Skills for Counseling and Psychotherapy Credits: 3

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts and methods of counseling and psychotherapy. Students will apply ethical and multicultural principles to the helping relationship while learning the basic methods of humanistic, psychodynamic, and cognitive behavioral approaches as they relate to the helping process. A main focus of this course is the acquisition of basic helping skills. Students will also become familiar with counseling and therapy outcome research, and they will develop self-awareness and an ability to evaluate their skills as counselors/clinicians.