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.
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Category: Spring 2012
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.
- Teacher: Sue Feldman
- Teacher: Frances Lessman
- Teacher: Brenda Valles
Category: Graduate School Summer 2018
Overview of feminist theoretical perspectives,, methods, and therapies, which, though broad and, diverse, nonetheless-share a common focus on, addressing the impact of gender socialization and, cultural expectations on individuals and society., Emphasis is placed on diversity, ethics, and, advocacy. Covers feminist counseling of women,, men, and families. Students assist in the, development of content for this course, which is, taught within a feminist pedagogical framework.
- Teacher: Amy Rees
Category: Graduate Fall 2021
Recent research on sexual health issues of, importance to counselors. Issues include sexual, health in childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and, aging; review of recent research on sexual, preference; and common sexual dysfunction, experienced by rape and incest victims and modes, of treatment.
- Teacher: Matthew Geraths
Category: Graduate Summer 2021
Recent research on sexual health issues of, importance to counselors. Issues include sexual, health in childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and, aging; review of recent research on sexual, preference; and common sexual dysfunction, experienced by rape and incest victims and modes, of treatment.
- Teacher: Matthew Geraths
Category: Graduate Summer 2021
Conservation psychology is an interdisciplinary field that explores the psychological basis of human’s care for nature and motivation toward conservation and sustainability. The course provides a background on the development of conservation psychology and survey of topics including psychological benefits of contact with nature, nature and lifespan development, environmental identity and behavior, social justice, influencing conservation action, hope and resilience, and strategic messaging and communications. The instructor will provide examples from the US and abroad. Conservation roles for mental health counselors, environmental educators and sustainability professionals will be explored. The course includes online, in-person and field-based activities.
- Teacher: Thomas Doherty
Category: Graduate Fall 2015
This course provides an opportunity for students, to do in-depth exploration of specialized topics, or practices related to ecopsychology and to gain, experience in various roles such as counselor,, therapist, educator, activist, consultant, or, researcher. Course focus and format varies given, year and instructor. This course integrates critical geography into the practice of family therapy/counseling focusing on the impact of space and place; offering "family cartography" as a therapeutic tool. Participants explore 1) privacy, personal space, social interactions, 2) safety in community and social life, 3) relationships between social class and mobility, 4) dynamics of boundaries and resistance, and (5) relevance of these for case conceptualization and treatment planning.
- Teacher: Carmen Knudson-Martin
Category: Graduate Spring 2021
Introduction to the major schools of thought, regarding group therapy and the common factors, associated with positive outcomes. Covers group, dynamics, obstacles to success in group therapy,, and the stages of group process. Role-playing,, outside group membership, and demonstrations, illustrate principles of effective group, leadership.
- Teacher: Antonia Mueller
Category: Graduate Fall 2021
Introduction to the major schools of thought
regarding group therapy and the common factors
associated with positive outcomes. Covers group
dynamics, obstacles to success in group therapy,
and the stages of group process. Role-playing,
outside group membership, and demonstrations
illustrate principles of effective group
leadership.
regarding group therapy and the common factors
associated with positive outcomes. Covers group
dynamics, obstacles to success in group therapy,
and the stages of group process. Role-playing,
outside group membership, and demonstrations
illustrate principles of effective group
leadership.
- Teacher: Gon Ratanashevorn
Category: Graduate School Fall 2024
Introduction to the major schools of thought, regarding group therapy and the common factors, associated with positive outcomes. Covers group, dynamics, obstacles to success in group therapy,, and the stages of group process. Role-playing,, outside group membership, and demonstrations, illustrate principles of effective group, leadership.
- Teacher: Bea Hurston
- Teacher: Gon Ratanashevorn
Category: Couns, Therapy and School Pych