Advanced Counseling Theory

10-520-119 ADVANCED COUNSELING THEORY ...This course is an extension of skills already learned in classes such as Introduction to Counseling, Behavior Assessment, and Abnormal Psychology. Students will learn about the skills and techniques used in cognitive-behavioral therapy, and will learn how to apply specific therapies to specific needs and mental health diagnoses. Students will also learn about different theoretical orientations to mental health problems with a special emphasis on the contrast between cognitive-behavioral and psychoanalytic theories. Crisis intervention techniques, skills and theory will be discussed in some depth with an emphasis on the helper’s role in providing those services; as well as the helper’s potential to fall victim to the effects of such experience. Modern film will be used to provide examples as well as material for discussion during this course. Prerequisites: 10-520-115 INTRO TO COUNSELING, 10-809-159 ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY, and acceptance in Human Services program.