INTRODUCTION TO GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING (2 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Identify personal, professional, and ethical aspect of counseling; Explain stages, process and theories in counseling; Apply basic skills of counseling in certain population.

Topics:

1. Introduction: History of and Trends in Counseling
2. Personal and Professional Aspects of Counseling
3. Ethical Aspects of Counseling
4. Counseling in Multicultural Society
5. Building Counseling Relationships
6. Working in a Counseling Relationship
7. Closing Counseling Relationship
8. Psychoanalytic, Adlerian and Humanistic Therapy
9. Behavior and Cognitive Behavior Therapy
10. Brief and Crisis Theories of Counseling
11. Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling
12. Career Counseling Over Life Span