Concepts and Techniques in Mental Health Counseling

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For most of your training as counselors, you have focused on learning about theory. In this course, we will focus on the interaction of theory with practice. Our concern this semester is to learn and apply the various concepts and techniques needed in clinical practice. The primary goal of this course is to learn about the interplay between theory and technique within the `real world' of clinical work. We will study various schools of therapy and their techniques including: Person-centered psychodynamic, gestalt, existential, behavioral, eclectic, integrated, etc. Students will gain many skills for inclusion in their `therapeutic toolbox.'