Counseling Theories   [Archived Catalog]
2022-2023 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook
   

COUN 2025 - Counseling Theories


This course surveys "schools" or groups of theories and developments in therapeutic interventions. Theorists associated with each school illustrate differing approaches in psychotherapy. The course explores four broad categories of psychotherapy: psychodynamic; behavioral and cognitive-behavioral; existential, humanistic, and transpersonal; and systems and family systems approaches. The course surveys the history and development of these perspectives toward human nature, psychological health, normal development, psychopathology, and approaches to intervention.  3 credit(s)