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An intensive practical experience in the arts of forming a counseling relationship. Personal feedback on interpersonal interactions and supervision of videotaped interviewing are used to help the student attain competency in the wise use of techniques in the counseling encounter and the counseling relationship.
COUN 509 Supervision and Consultation (3 SH)
This course provides an exploration of the theory and practice of counseling supervision and consultation, including models, techniques, process, case conceptualization, ethical issues, multicultural competency, and legal considerations. The format of this course will combine lecture, class discussion, and experiential activities. The course will only be offered to advanced students, those students who have completed a counseling practicum and are currently enrolled in counseling internship, and will be paired with COUN 508 Counseling Techniques, which is offered to beginning students, to facilitate and experiential learning process between the two classes. Students will also use their internship placement site as an opportunity to experience supervision and consultation.
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This course provides an advanced overview of current research and theory on life-span human development, and will enhance students’ understanding of significant developmental changes that occur over the life span. Emphasis will be placed on standard physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development as well as on issues such as diversity and socialization in relation to perceptions of human development. Professional, clinical, legal, and ethical issues will also be addressed.
COUN 518 Integrated Counseling Process (3 SH)This course provides an overview of various approaches to working with clients emphasizing emotion theory and the role of empathic attunement in healing. Class sessions and readings will explore the interpersonal therapy process and demonstrate various ways to implement experiential techniques in therapy. Students will work to further define their theory and use this to apply a variety of counseling approaches and techniques. Each student will construct a research paper that integrates their theoretical approach with techniques, interventions and applicable counseling approaches. Class sessions will emphasize experiential exercises, technique based role-plays and skill enhancement group praxis. Students are encouraged to take risks and develop their personal style in applying experiential methods in treatment.
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This course is designed to introduce students to basic crisis intervention strategies. The course addresses fundamental crisis intervention theory and offers practical applications in various crisis situations. Students will explore various assessment, intervention and crisis treatment issues. Special emphasis will be placed on the impact of trauma on the individual, family and community. Students will engage in crisis intervention role-plays and practice applying specific interventions in crisis scenarios. Each student will engage in researching and compiling a comprehensive community resource guide for the local community.
COUN 607 Multicultural Counseling (3 SH) Multiculturalism is both an intellectual movement and an ethical imperative within the counseling and
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This course is designed to give students an overview of theoretical and practical approaches to working with children and adolescents. Special populations and issues identified by course participants will be explored. In addition, students will be required to participate in off- campus collaboration with an agency devoted to meeting the mental health needs of children and adolescents.
COUN 627 Marriage and Family Counseling (3 SH)
This course provides an overview of marital and family counseling from a systems perspective. A survey of the predominant systems theories essential in working with couples and families will be presented. Special emphasis is given to evidence based treatments and the current research on attachment theory and the role of attachment in couple and family distress. Students will become familiar with attachment issues, working from an emotion focused perspective and gain proficiency in assessment and intervention. Students will engage in learning exercises and role-plays in order to facilitate application of course content. Each student will construct a personal family genogram and engage in analyzing their family using a systems approach and use case conceptualization and treatment planning from various theories.
COUN 637 Career Development (3 SH)
Students will be introduced to career development recognizing the importance and uniqueness of various facets of career counseling. Emphasis is given to developmental considerations and the role of testing, educational and career development program planning and implementation. Technology-based career development applications and strategies will be explored. The interrelationships among and between work, family and other life role factors will be considered with a special emphasis on gender, diversity and working with specific populations. Legal and ethical issues will be discussed as well as issues of personal faith and values.
COUN 677 Independent Studies Arr.
This refers to studies of specific issues or areas not covered by any of the standard offerings. These studies may be requested by the student or suggested by an instructor. Approval by the instructor and the director is required. Methodology may involve assigned readings, written reports or any other methods the supervising instructor chooses. A student should have credit for three courses, and must qualify academically for independent study in the judgment of the director before approval is granted. A limited number of hours in independent study will be applied toward a degree.
COUN 687 Expressive Therapies: Archetypal Explorations (1 SH)
This course is an experiential introduction to the creative process in counseling through the lens of archetypal symbol and mythology. Participants will be invited to explore the literal and figurative context in which creativity emergesarchetypes emerge, will identify through the use of metaphor, imagery, and poetry the power of creative expression, and will find ample opportunity to discuss, reflect, and process with peers. Instructor will be drawing on a range of literature and clinical practicewith specific guidance from the work of Dr. Carl Jung and Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
COUN 689/690 Internship (3 SH)
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This course is designed to help the student understand the personal, social, emotional, physiological, and environmental factors related to addictions, with the main emphasis on chemical addictions. Student will be exposed to the varied aspects and challenges involved in the evaluations, diagnosis and treatment process of addiction, as well as, the specific qualities and efforts of the main mood altering drugs. This course will also look at the many professional, ethical, and legal issues unique to the field of addictions counseling.
COUN 698 Mindfulness & Psychotherapy (1 SH)
This course will provide a comprehensive survey foundation for the use of mindfulness and meditation , meditation and mindful self-compassion and their applications in a wide range of counseling modalities and populations, including children, adolescents, and adultstherapy. The course will be built on three primary pillars: personal practice of mindfulness and meditation, an understanding of the applications and populations with which one can use mindfulness and meditation in therapy, and application skill-building through enactments and role play. Students participating in this course can expect to gain a breadth of mindfulness, meditation and meditation self-compassion practices for use in therapy as well as exposure to the theory and research that supports these practices.
COUN 699 Topics Sec. B - Listening in Psychoanalysis’ (1 SH) TBA
In this course elective, I frame psychoanalysis as a practice of deep listening. Listening has the capacity to transform sensation into feeling and feeling into an emotionally-informed thought. While the emphasis on listening has always been present, the influences of post-Kleinian theory and the British Independent Group have radically shifted the way contemporary psychoanalysts listen and understand clinical work. Questions about diagnostic categories are now less important than a person’s unique capacity to feel, dream, play and learn from experience. In this course, I will provide an introduction to psychoanalysis through a Bionian and Winnicottian lens. We will practice psychoanalytic listening through the discussion of case studies. Finally, I will give you the opportunity to reflect on how these theories and techniques inform your emerging identity as a professional counselor.