Specifically tailored to the typical struggles of adolescents, it focuses on getting to the heart of a teenager. Other concerns of the class include involving parents in the counseling process and understanding cultural issues unique to teens. Students have the opportunity to observe counseling through a one-way mirror and to interact with the counselor following the counseling session. This track consists of a cluster of apologetic courses. By apologetic we mean that they are intended to challenge your personal life, sharpen your counseling, and prepare you to make a credible defense for biblical counseling to believers and unbelievers.
Psychotherapies offer a secular cure of souls.
Many modern people interpret their lives and problems through these lenses. This course interacts with representative psychologists, both non-Christian and Christian. Orientation to the effects of licit and illicit drugs, neurological disorders, psychosomatic medicine, and other current medical research of interest to counselors is provided. This course acquaints students with the basic elements of statistical analysis, research design and test construction procedures that are integral to psychological testing and make up the empirical side of psychology. Students will not be trained in the use of psychological tests in this course.