Students without an undergraduate degree in psychology are required to take this course. Others may elect to take the course for review purposes. This course may not be used to satisfy degree requirements. The reasons for those problems are diverse, the explanations and approaches to dealing with them even more diverse. Being successful in the world, which includes the physical and psychological challenges of growing older, unexpected illness, accident and tragedy, are issues many people never expect to have to cope with.
Effective counseling is simply honest conversation between two human beings.
There is no magic in counseling and psychotherapy, only courage, or lack thereof. This involves being truthful with oneself and a trustworthy other. In this introductory course, we learn the basic issues regarding normal and abnormal behavior, assessing reality, and separating fact from fiction. We will discuss psychoanalytic, cognitive, biological, humanistic, and existential approaches to counseling and psychotherapy. Course Objectives 1.