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For mental health counseling students only
Additional one time charges are $10.50

This course is a central course in the new master's program in counseling and psychotherapy. The course outlines the central concepts and theories of counseling and psychotherapy, providing the student with a basic understanding of important therapeutic themes and approaches in the field.

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

*The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here.