Faculty Contact Information:
1. Telephone: (to be given out in class) I live in France and the first two numbers indicate the country code and the following 0 is only used when calling within France. Otherwise, drop the first 0 when dialing. I have an answering machine and will be able to contact you within 24 hours within the week.
2. Email: (To be given out in class) With the number of students in class writing to me about various issues, it may be helpful to include a summary of any previous correspondence to help my memory.
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Consultation:
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Available by email prior to class, after class on Day One, or by appointment.
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Required Texts and Readings:
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American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Corey, G. (2004). Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy. (7th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Corey, G. (2004). Student Manual: Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy. (7th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Sperry, L., Carlson, J., and Kjos, D. (2002). Becoming an Effective Therapist. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. [Chs. 1-3 and 7-10 of this text, which is also used in PSYC 502, PSYC 714 and GUCO 610, will be covered in this class.]
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Supplementary Readings:
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All graduate students should be prepared to utilize the UMUC online library. The library contains a large number of full text academic journals that are free of charge and immediately available. The library homepage also contains a number of links related to improving students’ research and writing skills.
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Recommended Journals:
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Course Description:
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Prerequisite: PSYC 502. This course is not offered online but must be taken onsite. In this course several of the major approaches to counseling will be examined using a multicultural approach. Pragmatic interviewing approaches based on their major theoretical concepts will be analyzed. The theories studied include Psychoanalytic, Jungian, Adlerian, Existential, Person-Centered, Gestalt, Behavior, Family Systems, and Cognitive-Behavior approaches. Students will become familiar with on-line library search techniques and APA documentation styles. As this course replaces PSYC 534, students may receive credit for only one of the following courses: PSYC 734, PSYC 534 or EDCP 616.
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Course Goals:
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This course is designed to enable students to become familiar with both the art and the science of counseling. It will assist students in continuing the process of integrating personal style and philosophy into an effective counseling approach.
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Course Objectives:
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At the conclusion of the course, the student will be able to:
1. Understand the personal and professional characteristics of effective counselors.
2. Know ethical standards and appreciate the complexity of ethical issues in the field of counseling.
3. Understand the therapeutic applications related to a variety of personality, learning, systems and eclectic/integrative theories in counseling and psychology, including multi-cultural counseling theory.
4. Integrate and synthesize across various therapeutic models as they are applied to the complexities of actual individuals, couples, families, and systems.
5. Understand and apply the several core counselor attributes that contribute to successful helping relationships, including values, observation, listening and communication skills, and empathy.
6. Understand and apply how to effectively help clients define their present situation, conceptualize and commit to a preferred situation, and develop, implement and evaluate actions leading to valued outcomes.
7. Appreciate the importance of intentional personal growth through a commitment to continuing self-awareness activities.
8. Demonstrate an enhanced self-awareness of personal strengths, interests, and abilities.
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Grading Information:
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Students’ performance will be graded based upon a percentage of a total of possible 500 points obtained during the course. In general, it will be necessary to obtain a minimum of 90% of the course points to achieve an A, at least 80% of the points for a B, at least 70% of total possible points for a C, at anything below 70% is a F.
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Course Requirements:
The following tasks comprise the assignments with their respective point values for this course:
1. Midterm Examination.................30 pts
2. Corey and Egan Workbook Exercises...10 pts
3. Personal Inventory of Values........10 pts
4. Two Peer Interview and Critique.....30 pts each
5. Attendance/Participation............10 pts
6. Final Project OR Final Examination..30 pts
TOTAL =150 pts
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Description of Course Requirements:
1. Midterm Exam: Each student will complete a take-home essay type
examination that will reflect the material covered in the first half of the course. Students will be given one week to complete the exam.
Corey and Egan Workbook Exercises: In the accompanying workbooks for
each of the course texts, you will be responsible for selecting five
assignments, one each from five different chapters for each workbook. Your written responses to the exercises will be shared with the Instructor and your classmates for feedback.
2. Personal Inventory of Values: For this assignment, you must consider Egan's "Values in Action" construct a personal examination of your value system as related to the helping professions. You must also choose one value that you hold that may be incongruent with being a counselor in a multicultural society, and define its current status, its preferred status, and action strategies that will assist change toward "valued" outcomes.
3. Peer Counseling and Critique: Each student will conduct two videotaped brief counseling sessions with a peer. A multi-modal assessment (Lazarus) will be completed, as well as three pages of transcript and analysis of counseling skills for the first tape, and a summary of the experience including a personal assessment of strengths and areas needing improvement, and a plan for improvement of skills.
4. Final Examination/Final Project: Students must choose to complete either a Final Examination or a Final Project. Students electing to take a Final Examination will be responsible for completing a number of essay questions related to the course material as a take home exam. Students electing to complete the Final Project must prepare a simulated case study that either: a) emphasizes and illustrates the integrative theoretical nature of working with a particular client, or b) demonstrates the various stages/processes of Egan's model. Further details of the project will be described in class.
5. Participation: A significant part of the course will include hands-on counseling sessions that will include videotaping. Active attendance of class sessions are expected.
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Course Schedule:
First Weekend
Session 1: Introduction to Counseling Practice; Counseling Relationship
and Therapeutic Factors; Corey, Ch 1,2; Egan 1,2;
Session 2: Psychoanalytic & Adlerian Therapies; Corey, Ch 4 & 5
Second Weekend
Session 3: Existential & Person-Centered Therapies; Behavior &
Cognitive-Behavior Therapies Corey, Ch 6,7, 10,11
Session 4: Family Systems Therapy, Reality Therapy, Gestalt Therapy;
Feminist and Multi-Cultural Therapy Issues Corey, Ch 13, 9, 8, 12
DUE: Midterm and Corey Workbook Exercises
Third Weekend
Session 5: Multi-Modal Assessment (Lazarus); Ethics; Values and Valuing
in Counseling Corey 3; Egan, Ch 3
DUE: Personal Values Inventory
Session 6: Basic Communication Skills Egan, Chs 4,5,6 Stage
I: Helping Define the Status Quo Egan, Ch 7, 8, 9
Fourth Weekend
Session 7: Stage I: Challenging the Status Quo Egan; Stage II: Helping
Define a Future Commitment Egan, Ch 10,11,12, 13,14,15
DUE: First Peer Interview
DUE: Egan Workbook Exercises
Session 8: Stage III: Helping Build a Bridge Egan;
Summary/Review/Evaluation Egan, Ch 16,17,18, 19
DUE: Second Peer Review
DUE: Final Exam/Final Project
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Academic Policies:
Note: Any written assignment in this course may be submitted to TurnItIn.Com. This statement constitutes prior notice.
The official university policy on Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty can be found at http://www.umuc.edu/policy/aa15025.shtml. Section I.C. states: "Faculty may determine if the resubmission of course work from previous classes (whether or not taken at UMUC), partially or in its entirety, is acceptable when assigning a grade on that piece of course work. Faculty must provide this information in their written syllabi. If the resubmission of course work is deemed to be unacceptable, a charge may not be brought under this Policy and will be handled as indicated in the written syllabi."
Please refer to Description of Course Requirements for specific information on how resubmissions will be treated in this course and to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog for information on the following:
Academic Integrity
Course Load
Exception to Policy
Grade Appeal Process
Make-up Examinations
Nondiscrimination
Students with Disabilities
Hard copies of the catalog are available at your local Education Center.
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Faculty Bio:
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I am a Collegiate Professor, teaching both undergraduate psychology and graduate counseling classes for Maryland in Europe. I grew up in the Ozarks of Missouri and have all my degrees from Midwestern institutions (Central Missouri State, University of Kansas, and Iowa State University). This is my eighth year teaching for UMUC in the overseas division. My two major professional interests include the interface between mental health policy and law and cross-cultural issues in counseling and psychology.
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