PSYN 400 - Theories and Techniques of Counseling

Credit(s): 3
This seminar examines the principle theories of counseling and the work of their most noteworthy practitioners, and it explores the assumptions of those theories about the relationships of counseling to everyday life. Students become familiar with the therapeutic techniques and approaches central to the various counseling theories. Among the questions this course will help students answer are: To whom is the counselor responsible? What role does ( and ought ) the counselor play in supporting or questioning traditional social values and society’s expectations concerning appropriate behavior? What counseling techniques may be useful in general interpersonal experience? Students will be expected to practice specific counseling techniques such as listening, questioning, giving feedback, and clarifying. Exercises in role-playing and values clarification will be included.

Only open to students in the B.A. Liberal Arts and Sciences program.