Counselor variable such as values, needs, interpersonal orientation, and their relationship to the counseling model. Presentation and review of counseling techniques. Use of the case study method to expand student's awareness and sensitivity, the complexity of the individual. Focus on skill development through the use of audio tapes, and role playing. Requires active participation in training group setting.
Students learn group process through participation.
Factors such as resistance, transference, group climate, norms and stages of development will be observed, experienced and studied. The format of this course will be experiential, not lecture discussion. An introduction to family systems therapy and thinking including preliminary exposure to a variety of perspectives on families and couples. Students acquire an understanding of normative family life cycle patterns and transitions as well as changing patterns in the family life cycle. The roles of gender and ethnicity in normative family patterns and in family based therapeutic interventions are discussed.