Professional Orientation

Catalog description

Contemplative counseling professional orientation serves as an introduction to the Counseling Profession and explores history and philosophy of the profession and its specialty areas, including counselor identity, advocacy, professional counseling organizations, credentialing, certification, licensure, ethical standards, technology's impact, self-evaluation, and supervision. It further explores what is meant by mental health as concept and experiences that have evolved over the last hundred years of formalized counseling, while also considering cultural and Buddhist perspectives on these fundamental questions. The possibility of working with self and other within a larger contemplative view of "basic goodness" is considered.