Course Title: Counseling Theories
Campus Course Code: EDCO 6384
Campus: UT Permian Basin
Program: Non-Program
Course Description
Counseling Theories is a writing intensive, online discovery course that has been developed to facilitate active discovery and exploration of information resources pertaining to the major concepts and practices of currently used systems of psychotherapy, as well as ethical and cultural issues related to counseling practice. This course is intended for graduate students in clinical and counseling psychology, counselor education and the human services and mental health professions. The course uses a combination of independent study of textbook information and its companion CD with case studies and counseling examples; as well as exploration of information on the Internet, and, in particular, Internet library sources for current research, theory and applications. The primary goal of the present course is to compare and contrast the systems of psychotherapy to determine how each “feels” or “fits” within each student’s unique history and frame of reference, and to enable each student to develop his and her own personal preference and style of counseling. Consequently, each student should leave the course having established a favored psychotherapeutic approach. It is the instructor’s view that it is therapeutically move valuable to have a favorite, and hence be skilled in one system of techniques and then “add” from the other systems on a case by case basis. This course can be taken for either Psychology or Education Counseling credit.
Materials
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Prerequisites: Graduate standing
Credits:3
Level:Graduate
Faculty
Jim Olson
olson_j@utpb.edu
432-552-2345