PSY 274 Child and Adolescent Counseling

This course examines the theory and process of working with children and adolescents in counseling. Students' learn how to assess children and adolescents with all types of psychological disorders, conceptualize problems, develop treatment plans, utilize therapeutic techniques and explore issues of abuse. Contextual factors (e.g. child abuse, culture including socioeconomic, ethnicity, sexual orientation race, disability, spirituality) that impact the counseling process and how students' personal experiences impact their training and practice as a professional child and adolescent counselor will be explored. Prerequisite PSY 225, PSY 268