Spirituality and Counseling

Catalog description

Students are given a basic understanding of philosophical and practical ways to integrate existential, mystical, or other inexplicable issues into the counseling process. The student will look at different spiritual practices with a respectful, multicultural lens. Spiritual practices will be viewed as possible psychological techniques, pathology and/or cognitive distortions. The student will be given the opportunity to develop a personal spiritual theory of how he or she would like to integrate or not integrate, spirituality into his or her work as a counselor. Limited to Professional Counseling majors.