Counseling for Enhanced Performance

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This course focuses on the psychological skills, methods, and strategies used by performance enhancement consultants working in business, industry, personnel development, sport, and other domains. Each student has the opportunity to practice performance enhancement interventions in a supervised setting. The course is conducted as a seminar, emphasizing participant interactions and cooperative learning. Major theories covered include the transtheoretical model, the theory of planned behavior, self-efficacy theory, self-determination theory, flow, IZOF theory, catastrophe theory, competence motivation theory, the multi-dimensional model of leadership, goal setting theory, attribution theory, and reversal theory.