Advanced Counseling Skills & Human Sexuality

Catalog description

This course will be a hybrid course combining advanced counseling skills and counseling related to human sexuality issues. The advanced counseling skills portion of the class will be understood as an elaboration of the basic understanding of theoretical interventions learned in the first year of the program by presenting students with information about case conceptualization and more advanced intervention from three major theoretical orientations (cognitive behavioral, psychoanalytic, and emotion-focused therapy). There will also be a brief consideration of what it means to integrate and combine different theoretical approaches, if they really are as different as we think. Topics in human sexuality that commonly present in school and mental health settings will be used as the context for applying advanced skills. This course aims to present students with factual information about advanced skills and human sexuality while also providing an atmosphere in which self- reflection and affective learning can facilitate counselor development in the areas of advanced skills and human sexuality. Prerequiite: Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.