This course is about how to help people change what they experience and how they live their lives. We will examine core strategies, interventions, and counselor skills for the common issues clients bring to counselors and therapists. Learn from your own experience with a personal change experiment; practice helping a classmate; practice planning to help clients via cases examples; learn to research strategies useful with clients and problems of special interest to you; watch master therapists demonstrate their approaches to key elements of effective work with clients; learn how to help clients engage their best values and goals; learn to individualize your approach within a wholistic framework of social, cultural and spiritual relevance to your clients.
Overview and application of qualitative research, methods. Through course readings, discussion, and, practical application, candidates explore: (1), different approaches in qualitative research and, epistemologies and common theoretical perspectives, that undergird qualitative inquiry, and (2), various methods and techniques for gathering,, interpreting, and making meaning of in-depth and, rich information about things as they occur in, their natural settings. Candidates gain the skills, necessary to review and critique qualitative, research and to design and undertake their own, qualitative research.
Development of diversity awareness and knowledge, including systems of power and privilege., Introduction to methods/skills for working with, clients who are diverse in culture, race,, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, or, physical or mental ability. Focus is on helping, students become capable therapists in varied, environments, including becoming aware of their, own beliefs, biases, and prejudices.
On-campus supervision, consultation, and instruction for students who are counseling clients at their field placements. Students are required to provide counseling samples (video tape recordings), write reports about their clients, and submit these for feedback. Students are also responsible for keeping records of their hours and turning completed records in to the instructor.
Independent Study enables a student to pursue, in, collaboration with a faculty member, an academic, course not currently offered. To receive credit, for independent study, the student consults with, the faculty member before registration to define, the course content, title, amount of credit, and, academic evaluation. As a general rule, a graduate, student may apply no more than three courses of, independent study toward a graduate degree or, licensure.
This page is a listing of current reading materials for Counseling Psychology courses. If an instructor does not have a Moodle course of their own, this page will have any supplementary readings that aren't in the assigned textbook(s).
Special topics in counseling, therapy and school
psychology. Students may obtain a course
description from the department office or website.
Independent Study enables a student to pursue, in, collaboration with a faculty member, an academic, course not currently offered. To receive credit, for independent study, the student consults with, the faculty member before registration to define, the course content, title, amount of credit, and, academic evaluation. As a general rule, a graduate, student may apply no more than three credits of, independent study toward a graduate degree or, licensure.
This Moodle page is for CTSP to access Placement Office-related information.
ctspplacement@lclark.edu
503-768-6094
Common library for Environmental & Eco-Counseling Courses taught by Thomas Doherty
This course provides an introduction to
ecopsychological theory and surveys research that
supports the theoretical foundations of nature
based practices found in Ecotherapy, Wilderness
Therapy, and other Nature-based therapies. The
course also surveys related concepts, findings and
practices in psychology and counseling/therapy
that provide a foundation for conservation and
sustainability work, environmental education,
advocacy, and activism.