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Sep 07, 2024
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COUN 5313 - Child and Adolescent Counseling
Semester Hours: Three
This course presents theories, techniques, and strategies for effectively counseling children and adolescents in clinical and school settings. The course covers legal and ethical concerns, sociocultural considerations, typical, atypical, and asynchronous cognitive, social, and emotional development, learning, and functioning in children and adolescents. The course will also cover strategies for supporting children and adolescents impacted by mental health concerns. Topics covered include an exploration of the counseling process as it relates to the use of psychotherapy theories and interventions including modern (e.g., person-centered therapy; behavioral therapies) and postmodern therapies (e.g., solution-focused brief therapy; narrative therapy) and play therapy with children and adolescents. Students will practice counseling techniques, design interventions, create informational materials covering mental health issues affecting youth, assess case conceptualizations and develop evidence-informed treatment/action and crisis response plans specifically intended for children and adolescents.
Note: COUN 5313 may be counted toward one credit hour of instruction in the Play Therapy Program, in place of PLTH 5501. The play therapy hours of instruction accrued within this course will focus on the history and foundations of play therapy theory and practice, historically significant seminal theories, and more recent theories that have contributed to the development of play therapy. Students will identify and begin to develop their personal play therapy theory. The hours of play therapy instruction accrued in this course meets the prerequisite requirements of PLTH 5501 for the progression to the special topics courses in the Play Therapy Program: PLTH 5531, PLTH 5541, PLTH 5551, and PLTH 5561
Term Offered: Summer
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