PSY 760 Counseling and Psychotherapy Methods

Examines the techniques and processes of individual and group counseling and psychotherapy from the cognitive behavioral perspective as well as from the psychodynamic viewpoint. Particular attention will be paid to the extent to which various counseling methods are evidence-based. An additional focus will be the study of counseling with persons suffering from DSM-IV, antisocial, narcissistic and borderline disorders, whose difficulties are of interest to the forensic clinician.