PSYC 705 - Religious and Spiritual Resources in Counseling

3 Credits

Prerequisite(s): None Attention will be given to the development of diagnostic skills in order to identify the counselee’s religious and spiritual resources that can be utilized in facing psychological problems. Counselors will learn how to distinguish their counselee’s existential questions, which are inherent in interpersonal conflicts. Issues of counselee self-worth, self-esteem, self-image, and self-confidence will be addressed. Students will learn how to identify and examine individual and institutional belief and value systems. Emphasis will be given to the development of the counselor’s own spiritual resources to enhance his or her counseling and to decrease the possibility of “counselor burnout.” Students will be required to write their own spiritual and religious biography.