Course Search

PMH 502: Mental Health Counseling 11

3 credits

A continuation of Mental Health Counseling I, this course prepares students for practice by its focus on the dynamics and components of the counseling relationship, and on the theory and practice of counseling interventions. The course will include equal emphasis on conceptual foundations of counseling and on practical applications.

Learning Goals

: 1.The student will learn how counselors have come to conceptualize, within a psychodynamic framework, the critical psychological and interpersonal components of an effective counseling relationship and will have opportunity to try out those skills in role playing situations.2.Students will gain an understanding of the variety of empirically and clinically tested psychodynamic interventions that have been identified, and will learn for which clients and problems each intervention is best suited. 3.Finally, students will have the opportunity to formulate and to try out the application of these interventions in exercises in class.Teaching and Learning Methods:

Sections Offered: Spring 2026