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Chpt 1: Introduction to the Class Notebook
Chpt 2: Registration & Pre-registration
Chpt 3: Required 500 Level Courses
- MAC 502 (Group)
- MAC 503 (Individual)
- MAC 512 (Family Systems)
- MAC 514 (Developmental)
- MAC 521 (Gender/Ethnicity)
- MAC 522 (Abusive Rel.)
Chpt 4: Required 600 Level Courses
- MAC 601 (Psychopathology)
- MAC 602 (Assess/TX)
- MAC 620 (Ethics)
Chpt 5: Elective 500 & 600 Level Courses
- MAC 651 (Substance Abuse)
- MAC 661 (Marriage/Family)
- MAC 671 (Expressive)
- MAC 691-692 Internship
- MAC 560 (Children)
- MAC 570 (Career)
- MAC 695 (Clinical)
- MAC 695 (Statistics)
Chpt 6: Independent Study Courses
Chpt 7: Transfer Courses
Chpt 8: Internship Classes
(On-line Forms)
Annual Schedule
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Master of Arts in
Counseling Psychology ("MAC") MAC
695:
"Advanced Clinical Skills"
Sample Syllabus (Subject to
Change)
Faculty Member:
Peggy Zorn, M.A.
Course
Description:
This course offers techniques in advanced
clinical skills. It looks at common therapeutic issues such as
bereavement, eating disorders, and transference. Attention is paid
to both techniques for therapist interventions as well as understanding
the therapist as a person. Specific objectives include:
- To develop a framework for working
in depth with clients
- To develop an ability to turn a
client's presenting symptoms into a therapeutic framework
including developing a treatment plan
- To look at issues such as
bereavement and eating disorders and how they appear in
therapeutic settings
- To study the relationship between
client and therapist and how that can be used in therapy
- To study specific techniques for
working with clients in therapy
Required Texts:
(Please do not order your books for the current semester from this list.
It may not be up-to-date.)
- Kahn, M. ( 1999). Between
therapist and client. W. H. Freeman & Co., NY
- Rando, T. A., (1993). Treatment
of complicated mourning, Research Press, Champaign, IL.
- Thompson, B. W. (1994). A hunger
so wide and so deep. University of Minnesota Press,
Minneapolis & London.
- Readings from: Cunningham, J.
(199 ). Loss & Life. x
Course
Requirements:
- Attend all classes
and participate in discussions.
- Prepare a guided journal entry for
each class
- Prepare a loss line and turn it in
as well as your response to doing this exercise. Then ask someone
else to do a loss line and discuss it with him or her and write
your response to that
- Write about an incident in your
recent experience demonstrating your understanding of
content/process
- Interview 3 people who have been in
therapy, asking them what worked and what didn't work for them.
Also, interview 2 therapists and ask what works and doesn't work
about therapy, particularly the relationship of therapy
- In small groups you will research
and demonstrate one type of advanced therapy skill. Your
presentation will be a half-hour role-play showing the technique.
Turn in a bibliography
- Since this class relies heavily on
role-plays, you will be required to participate in role-plays and
discussions
- During the semester, bring in one
poem, piece of writing, or song pertinent to this class (i.e., on
loss, relationship, witnessing, etc.)
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