COUN 502

This course offers a developmental perspective on counseling interventions appropriately undertaken with children, adolescents, and adults. Objectives include: 1) providing students with an introduction to basic intervention strategies for counseling children and adolescents, taking into account cultural and socio-economic influences; 2) familiarizing students with special topics, e.g., impact of divorce on children, child maltreatment, and effects of domestic violence; 3) consideration of family, peer, school, and community contexts in treatment planning (i.e., integrative case formulation) with children and adolescents; 4) identifying basic intervention strategies that facilitate adaptive change in adults’ lives, particularly in the context of significant transitions and life events; 5) addressing long term care and elder abuse; 6) consideration of gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity issues; and (7) examination of changes in career, interpersonal relationships, family structure and dynamics with an emphasis on their interdependence. This course also incorporates focus on 1 unit of special topics toward the CA LPCC license. Course restricted to Counseling M.A. students only.