Counseling Theory and Psychotherapy

Catalog description

This course is designed to explore the counseling process by examining specific theories and related research. The counseling theories examined in the course include Psychoanalytic, Adlerian, Existential, Person-Centered, Gestalt, Behavior, Cognitive Behavior, Reality, Feminist, Postmodern, and Family Systems with emphasis placed on developing effective techniques for facilitating individual counseling sessions and interviews, helping clients adjust to change, and sponsoring clients' self-exploration, self-understanding, and self-evaluation. This course aims to familiarize counselor candidates with the application of counseling theory in all aspects of the program as well as the counseling profession.