Advanced Youth Counseling

Catalog description

Counseling theories and techniques are studies as applied to individual and group counseling of youth. Applications extend to consultation with teachers, school systems, parents and family systems. Current research on youth counseling theories includes play therapy, choice theory/reality therapy, brief solution-focused theory, cognitive behavioral theory and models of parent training. Case conceptualization and treatment planning is framed within ecological and family systems, developmental theory, post-modern theory and medical model (current DSM). Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students. Enrollment limited to students with the SPECIAL APPROVAL attribute.