STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

         A.      Gain a basic understanding of a variety of theoretical approaches utilized in social work practice.

         B.      Recognize appropriate application of a specific treatment modality to meet individual client needs.

         C.      Demonstrate a fundamental knowledge of current forms of counseling techniques through classroom role play.

         D.      Understand the use of an eclectic approach to intervention.

         E.      Learn the principles of positive peer culture and how to apply it to the group setting.

         F.      Demonstrate an understanding of the ¿planned change process¿ and how it applies to working with clients.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I.      Basic Issues in Counseling Practice

         A.      Overview of contemporary counseling models

                 1.      Psychoanalytic

                 2.      Adlerian

                 3.      Existential

                 4.      Person centered

                 5.      Gestalt

                 6.      Reality Therapy

                 7.      Behavior Therapy

                 8.      Feminist Theory

                 9.      Family Systems Theory

         B.      Acquiring Competencies

         C.      Skills and Intervention Strategies

         D.      Issues Faced by Beginning Therapists

                 1.      Anxiety

                 2.      Self disclosure

                 3.      Limitations

                 4.      Avoiding perfectionism

                 5.      Understanding silence

                 6.      Clients who are demanding or lack commitment

                 7.      Tolerating ambiguity

                 8.      Humor

                 9.      Shared responsibility

                 10.     Development of style and technique

         E.      Preventing burnout

 II.     Ethical Issues in Counseling Practice

         A.      Ethical decision making

         B.      Client needs are paramount

         C.      Right of Informed Consent

         D.      Dimensions of Confidentiality

         E.      Multicultural perspective on ethical issues

         F.      Dual relationships

 III.    Theories and Techniques of Counseling

         A.      Psychoanalytic Theory

                 1.      View of Human Nature

                 2.      Structure of Personality

                 3.      Consciousness and the Unconscious

                 4.      Anxiety

                 5.      Ego Defense Mechanisms

                 6.      Development of Personality

                 7.      Jung¿s Perspective on the development of personality

                 8.      Contemporary Trends; Self Psychology and Object Relations Theory

         B.      Existential Therapy

                 1.      The capacity for self awareness

                 2.      Freedom and responsibility

                 3.      Striving for identify and relationship to others

                 4.      The search for meaning

                 5.      Anxiety as a condition of living

                 6.      Awareness of death and nonbeing

         C.      Person Centered Therapy

                 1.      View of Human Nature

                 2.      Basic Characteristics

         D.      Gestalt Therapy

                 1.      Principles of Gestalt

                 2.      The Now

                 3.      Unfinished business

                 4.      Peeling the onion

                 5.      Contact and resistance

                 6.      Energy and energy blocks

         E.      Reality Therapy

                 1.      A choice theory explanation of behavior

                 2.      Characteristics of reality therapy

         F.      Behavior Therapy

                 1.      View of Human Nature

                 2.      Characteristics and Assumptions

         G.      Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

                 1.      The Activating Event

                 2.      The Emotional Consequence

                 3.      The Intervention

                 4.      The New Feeling

         H.      Feminist Theory

                 1.      Personality Development

                 2.      Human Nature

                 3.      Challenging Traditional Roles for Women

                 4.      Principles of Feminist Psychology

         I.      Family Systems Theory

                 1.      Collaboration and Empowerment

                 2.      Multigenerational Therapy

                 3.      Human Validation Process Model

                 4.      Experiential Therapy

                 5.      Structural Family Therapy

                 6.      Adlerian Therapy

                 7.      Systemic Therapy

                 8.      Social Constructionism

                 9.      Integration of Models

                 10.     Multicultural Issues