PSY 173 Introduction to Counseling
This course is cross-listed with the graduate course PSY 227. This course provides students with an experiential laboratory to learn and practice listening and attending skills essential to the counseling process. A recovery oriented philosophy will be promoted as the students learn how to assess psychological behaviors and disorders conceptualize problems, develop treatment goals and utilize therapeutic techniques in their work with individuals. Contextual factors including personal experiences, culture, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, disability, spirituality gender and sexual orientation will be explored and students will have an opportunity to meet with various consumers and family members to understand their experience. Prerequisites: see policy on Undergraduate/Graduate Psychology Cross-Listed Courses.
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