COES 610 - Clinical Practice & Theoretical Orientation

3 Credits (Fall, Spring, Summer, Mini)
This course is designed to provide the student with advanced exploration and analysis of current counseling theories. The student will be expected to demonstrate the ability to analyze, synthesize, critique, and discuss, in verbal and manuscript form, the key concepts of traditional and contemporary counseling theory, and practice as well as effectively communicate their personal counseling orientation. Students will develop and increase personal awareness of cultural issues and professional multicultural counseling competencies as well as gain insight into personal assumptions, values, beliefs, and expectations about self and others as a means of working more effectively with diverse populations in the therapeutic process.