HS 265 - Introduction to Counseling Theories

Admission to a Human Services program.

Course Description: An introductory course covering the theoretical concepts and practical applications of counseling intervention strategies for the beginning helping professional. Specific topics: the helper as a person and as a professional including values, attitudes and ethics; an understanding of cultural issues that create barriers to helping; and the counseling intervention models of Psychoanalytical, Gestalt, Existential, Cognitive-behavioral and Family therapies. 

Course Learning Outcomes:

• CLO#1: Identify strengths and blind spots as a helping professional i.e., values and ethics.
• CLO#2: Recognize concepts of compassion, suffering, and burnout inherent within the helping field. (ILO: Critical Thinking)
• CLO#3: Identify and apply the basic concepts of Psychoanalytical, Gestalt, Existential, Cognitive-behavioral and Feminist therapies.
• CLO#4: Apply the intervention modalities as well as recognize and distinguish between all methods of intervention studied.