PSYC 460 DEA Introduction to Clinical and Counseling Psychology

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1 Columbia College Online Campus P a g e 1 PSYC 460 DEA Introduction to Clinical and Counseling Psychology March Session 14/54 March 23 to May 16, 2015 Course Description Contemporary theory and practices in clinical and counseling psychology. Psychotherapy interventions are studied from the psychoanalytic, cognitive, family, behavioral and existential perspectives. Research, legal and ethical issues are examined as they relate to the counselor as a person and as a professional. Prerequisite: 6 hours of PSYC courses and junior standing Proctored Exams: Final Textbooks Corey, Gerald (2013). Theory & Practice of Counseling & Psychotherapy (9 th edition). Wadsworth, Cengage Publishing. ISBN-13: MBS offers a Columbia College branded version of the text, ISBN 13: The student manual (listed below) is a suggested companion to our text. It is helpful for class activities and personal growth but it is not a required text. Corey, Gerald Student Manual for Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy, 9th edition, Thomson Brooks/Cole. Textbooks for the course may be ordered from MBS Direct. You can order online at (be sure to select Online Education rather than your home campus before selecting your class) by phone at For additional information about the bookstore, visit

2 Columbia College Online Campus P a g e 2 Course Overview Material in this course is presented in three major parts. Part I deals with basic issues in the practice of counseling and psychotherapy. This includes an overall introduction to the basic issues in counseling practice, the counselor as a person and as a professional, and prominent ethical issues of concern today. Part II addresses the most accepted theories of counseling and psychotherapy utilized today. The key concepts, therapeutic processes, therapeutic techniques and evaluations of each theory are explored. Part III addresses the trend in counseling toward psychotherapy integration, the issues related to this therapeutic process, and how to put the concepts of counseling and psychotherapy together into a meaningful way. Within this framework, the student will develop an understanding of the broad range of issues related to contemporary theory and practices in clinical and counseling psychology. Through studying the basic issues in counseling practice, the most accepted theories of counseling and psychotherapy, and integrating the highly integrated relationships between them, the student will see the significance of clinical and counseling psychology and gain a new appreciation of the most relevant issues. Technology Requirements Participation in this course will require the basic technology for all online classes at Columbia College: A computer with reliable Internet access, a web browser, Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Office or another word processor such as Open Office. You can find more details about standard technical requirements for our courses on our site. Course Objectives To understand the practical domain of the clinical and counseling profession. To understand foundation theories, principles, concepts and techniques of clinical and counseling psychology. To understand ethics related to the practice of clinical and counseling psychology. To practice first-order therapeutic intervention skills. Measurable Learning Outcomes Explain basic personal and professional concerns related to clinical and counseling practice. Demonstrate resolutions to ethical issues in counseling. Explain the conceptual and theoretical basis for psychoanalytic therapy. Explain the conceptual and theoretical basis for existential approaches to therapy. Explain the conceptual and theoretical basis for person-centered therapies. Explain the conceptual and theoretical basis for behavioral and cognitive therapies. Explain the conceptual and theoretical basis for reality theory. Explain the conceptual and theoretical basis for gestalt techniques used in therapy. Explain the conceptual and theoretical basis for feminist therapy. Explain the conceptual and theoretical basis for family systems theory. Demonstrate first-order counseling skills from a theoretical perspective of choice.

3 Columbia College Online Campus P a g e 3 Grading Grading Scale GRADE POINTS PERCENT A B C D F Grade Weights ASSIGNMENT POINTS PERCENT Discussions % Dropbox Assignments % Midterm Exam % Final Exam % Total % Schedule of Due Dates WEEK ASSIGNMENT POINTS DUE DATE 1 Discussion 1 20 Friday Discussion 2 20 Friday Dropbox Assignment 1 50 Sunday 2 Discussion 3 20 Friday Discussion 4 20 Friday Dropbox Assignment 2 50 Sunday 3 Discussion 5 20 Friday Discussion 6 20 Friday Dropbox Assignment 3 50 Sunday 4 Discussion 7 15 Friday Discussion 8 15 Friday Midterm Exam 150 Sunday 5 Discussion 9 20 Friday Discussion Friday Dropbox Assignment 4 50 Sunday 6 Discussion Friday Discussion Friday Dropbox Assignment 5 50 Sunday 7 Discussion Friday Discussion Friday Dropbox Assignment 6 (APA Style) 50 Sunday 8 Discussion Friday Discussion Friday Final Exam 250 Saturday Total 1000

4 Columbia College Online Campus P a g e 4 Assignment Overview Discussion postings should be completed by Friday of each week. There will 2 discussion topics each week. Your responses should be complete, concise, and well-written, with correct grammar and spelling. You are also expected to respond to at least two of your classmates posts in each discussion topic. Dropbox Assignments: You will write 6 papers in response to questions posed about issues in clinical practice. These papers should be submitted to the dropbox by Sunday of the assigned weeks. Points will be assigned on the basis of content, grammar and spelling, and overall presentation. These papers should be written in APA style, including at least one in-text citation and a reference. See the grading rubric below. Exams: The midterm exam consists of 35 multiple choice and true/false questions (3 points each) and 3 essays (15 points each). There will also be a proctored final exam consisting of 35 multiple choice and true/false questions (5 points each) and 3 essays (25 points each). See the information below about locating a proctor. Course Schedule Week 1: Basic Issues in Counseling Practice Readings: Chapters 1-2. Introductions: Introduce yourself in the Introductions topic of our class discussion, our virtual classroom. Please give us more than your name. Include your profession (or desired profession), interest in counseling and psychotherapy, and any other information that can help us get to know you. Discussion 1: What are the personal characteristics that you believe are most essential in order for a therapist to be authentic? Discussion 2: Take a position and defend it on the issue: Therapists should be required to undergo their own personal therapy before they become practitioners. Dropbox Assignment 1 What are some of your own personal characteristics that you think might assist and/or obstruct your ability to effectively work with clients in a therapeutic relationship? Be sure to reference the text or outside readings, including at least one in-text citation and one reference in your paper. Week 2: Common Issues Faced by Beginning Therapists Readings: Chapters 3 and 16. Discussion 3: Ethically, it is the counselor s responsibility to terminate a relationship with a client. What guidelines would you use in making such a decision? Discussion 4: How would you know or determine if your client is benefiting from the therapeutic relationship or not? What factors might play a role in your determination Dropbox Assignment 2 How might you proceed if you knew of the unethical practice of a colleague? What kinds of unethical behavior of your colleagues, if any, would you report and why? In studying Stan s

5 Columbia College Online Campus P a g e 5 experience of therapy, do you find any discrepancies, dilemmas or unethical practices? Be sure to reference the text or outside readings, including at least one in-text citation and one reference in your paper. Week 3: Psychoanalytic Theory & Adlerian Therapy Readings: Chapters 4 and 5. Discussion 5: What is the Freudian view of human nature? Do you accept the notions that humans are driven by aggressive and sexual instincts, and that humans are determined by unconscious forces? How is anxiety explained from the psychoanalytic perspective? Discussion 6: How were Adler s life experiences expressed in this theory? How was Adler s view of human nature different from Freud s view? What importance did Adler give to the role of childhood experiences in terms of expression in adult life? Dropbox Assignment 3 What do you find most useful about psychoanalytic and Adlerian therapy? In what ways might you incorporate some aspects of this approach into your own counseling style? How does Adlerian therapy compare and/or contrast with Freud s approach to therapy? Like Adler, do you believe that Freud s life experiences contribute to the psychoanalytic approach? Please respond to all of the above questions in your paper. Be sure to reference the text or outside readings, including at least one in-text citation and one reference in your paper. Week 4: Existential and Gestalt Therapy Readings: Chapters 6 and 8. Discussion 7: How is Gestalt seen as an effective process? How would you describe Gestalt approaches to a client? Provide an example from your own life experience that illustrates how the Gestalt approach could be effectively utilized in therapy. Discussion 8: What are the philosophical assumptions of existentialism? Describe the essence of the existential view of human nature. What are the implications of this view for counseling practice? What implications do freedom and responsibility have for counseling? From the perspective of counseling culturally diverse client populations, what are some of the contributions and limitations of the existential approach? Mid Term Exam You will be taking the midterm exam this week. It is taken online and due by Sunday of Week 4. The midterm exam consists of multiple choice and true/false questions and 3 essays. This is an open book exam. Note that the midterm exam will cover only the material presented in the first three weeks of the course. Week 5: Reality and Person-Centered Therapy Readings: Chapters 7 and 11. Discussion 9: What are the philosophical assumptions of Reality therapy? Can Reality therapy be considered a good multicultural approach in working with clients? Discussion 10: What techniques are utilized in Person-Centered therapy? How is Person- Centered therapy beneficial to the therapeutic alliance?

6 Columbia College Online Campus P a g e 6 Dropbox Assignment 4 How is Person-Centered therapy applied in the therapeutic relationship? Is this a positive approach to managing crisis in client s lives? What are the key concepts of Reality Therapy? Discuss Choice Theory in explaining individual behavior. How does this perspective empower the client? Will this perspective be applicable in a multicultural approach? Be sure to reference the text or outside readings, including at least one in-text citation and one reference in your paper. Week 6: Behavior and Cognitive Behavior Theories Readings: Chapters 9 and 10. Discussion 11: What are the characteristics that define Behavior therapy? What are the philosophical assumptions of REBT? How is REBT seen as an educational process? Discussion 12: Provide an example from your own life experience that illustrates the A-B-C theory of personality. Mention the specific steps that explain how philosophical restructuring changes our dysfunctional thoughts. Dropbox Assignment 5 What are some of the specific contributions of behavior therapy? What are some selected problem areas for which this approach is particularly effective? Why? How is this a culturally restrained and/or supportive mode of therapy? How does the REBT approach differ from traditional behavior therapy? Does it differ from cognitive theory as a whole? Be sure to reference the text or outside readings, including at least one in-text citation and one reference in your paper. Course Evaluations: Please evaluate the course. You will be able to submit your course evaluation between Sunday of Week 5 and Thursday of Week 7. A link will be sent to your CougarMail that will allow you to access the evaluation. Week 7: Feminist Therapy and Post-Modern Approaches Readings: Chapters 12 and 13. Discussion 13: What is the feminist view of human nature? Can feminist therapists be effect with men in our culture (western)? Discussion 14: How does social constructionism impact a client s world view and selfimage? Describe and use an example from your own life that illustrates Narrative therapy. Dropbox Assignment 6 What are some similarities and differences in the feminist therapeutic approach and postmodern concepts? What are the concepts of therapeutic collaboration and collaborative points of feminist therapy? Do you find either or both of these approaches to have multicultural concepts beneficial to the therapeutic process? Be sure to reference the text or outside readings, including at least one in-text citation and one reference in your paper.

7 Columbia College Online Campus P a g e 7 Week 8: Family Systems Therapy and the Integrative Perspective (Current Trend toward Psychotherapy Integration) Readings: Chapters 14 and 15. Discussion 15: Briefly demonstrate your understanding of the lenses utilized in a family systems approach. Discussion 16: How does theory affect practice? Discuss the meaning of the integrated perspective. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of drawing from more than one school? Final Exam: You will be taking the proctored final exam in class this week. Be sure that you have scheduled time at the proctoring site to take the exam. If you are using your own proctor, make sure that he or she has the information needed to access the exam for you. The final exam consists of 35 multiple choice and true/false questions (worth 5 points for each correct answer) and 3 essays (worth 25 points each). You will not be able to use your notes or book for this exam. Please remember to complete your final exam by midnight on Saturday this week. Course Policies Student Conduct All Columbia College students, whether enrolled in a land-based or online course, are responsible for behaving in a manner consistent with Columbia College's Student Conduct Code and Acceptable Use Policy. Students violating these policies will be referred to the office of Student Affairs and/or the office of Academic Affairs for possible disciplinary action. The Student Code of Conduct and the Computer Use Policy for students can be found in the Columbia College Student Handbook. The Handbook is available online; you can also obtain a copy by calling the Student Affairs office (Campus Life) at The teacher maintains the right to manage a positive learning environment, and all students must adhere to the conventions of online etiquette. Plagiarism Your grade will be based in large part on the originality of your ideas and your written presentation of these ideas. Presenting the words, ideas, or expression of another in any form as your own is plagiarism. Students who fail to properly give credit for information contained in their written work (papers, journals, exams, etc.) are violating the intellectual property rights of the original author. For proper citation of the original authors, you should reference the appropriate publication manual for your degree program or course (APA, MLA, etc.). Violations are taken seriously in higher education and may result in a failing grade on the assignment, a grade of "F" for the course, or dismissal from the College. Collaboration conducted between students without prior permission from the instructor is considered plagiarism and will be treated as such. Spouses and roommates taking the same course should be particularly careful. All required papers may be submitted for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers may be included in the Turnitin.com reference database for the purpose of detecting plagiarism. This service is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use posted on the Turnitin.com site. Non-Discrimination There will be no discrimination on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, ideology, political affiliation, veteran status, age, physical handicap, or marital status.

8 Columbia College Online Campus P a g e 8 Disability Services Students with documented disabilities who may need academic services for this course are required to register with the Coordinator for Disability Services at (573) Until the student has been cleared through the disability services office, accommodations do not have to be granted. If you are a student who has a documented disability, it is important for you to read the entire syllabus before enrolling in the course. The structure or the content of the course may make an accommodation not feasible. Online Participation You are expected to read the assigned texts and participate in the discussions and other course activities each week. Assignments should be posted by the due dates stated on the grading schedule in your syllabus. If an emergency arises that prevents you from participating in class, please let your instructor know as soon as possible. Attendance Policy Attendance for a week will be counted as having submitted a course assignment for which points have been earned during that week of the session or if the proctoring information has been submitted or the plagiarism quiz taken if there is no other assignment due that week. A class week is defined as the period of time between Monday and Sunday (except for Week 8, when the week and the course will end on Saturday at midnight). The course and system deadlines are all based on the Central Time Zone. Cougar All students are provided a CougarMail account when they enroll in classes at Columbia College. You are responsible for monitoring from that account for important messages from the College and from your instructor. You may forward your Cougar account to another account; however, the College cannot be held responsible for breaches in security or service interruptions with other providers. Students should use for private messages to the instructor and other students. The class discussions are for public messages so the class members can each see what others have to say about any given topic and respond. Late Assignment Policy An online class requires regular participation and a commitment to your instructor and your classmates to regularly engage in the reading, discussion and writing assignments. Although most of the online communication for this course is asynchronous, you must be able to commit to the schedule of work for the class for the next eight weeks. You must keep up with the schedule of reading and writing to successfully complete the class. Late assignments will not normally be accepted. Normally, there are no emergency situations in an 8 week class. Emergencies do occasionally occur, however, and these situations will be reviewed on an individual basis. Should one occur, however, you have the responsibility of immediately notifying me to request an extension of time to submit work. Extensions may or may not be approved, depending on the situation and the timing of the request. An extension would not be approved if the request is made on the date that the work is due and certainly not after the due date. Extensions will not be approved if the emergency is related to a computer breakdown or internet service provider error on the due date either. Extensions are only approved in unforeseen situations and when requested in advance of the due date. Please be prepared to provide some evidence of the emergency as well. This late assignment policy is designed to protect and reward the vast majority of students who do in fact submit their work on time. This is the fairest approach with regard to timeliness concerns for all.

9 Columbia College Online Campus P a g e 9 Course Evaluation You will have the opportunity to evaluate the course near the end of the session. Course evaluations will open on Sunday of Week 5 and will remain open until Thursday of Week 7. A link will be sent to your CougarMail that will allow you to access the evaluation. Be assured that the evaluations are anonymous and that your instructor will not be able to see them until after final grades are submitted. Proctor Policy Students taking courses that require proctored exams must submit their completed proctor request forms to their instructors by the end of the second week of the session. Proctors located at Columbia College campuses are automatically approved. The use of Proctor U services is also automatically approved. The instructor of each course will consider any other choice of proctor for approval or denial. Additional proctor choices the instructor will consider include: public librarians, high school or college instructors, high school or college counseling services, commanding officers, education service officers, and other proctoring services. Personal friends, family members, athletic coaches and direct supervisors are not acceptable. Additional Resources Orientation for New Students This course is offered online, using course management software provided by Desire2Learn and Columbia College. The Student Manual provides details about taking an online course at Columbia College. You may also want to visit the course demonstration to view a sample course before this one opens. Technical Support If you have problems accessing the course or posting your assignments, contact your instructor, the Columbia College Helpdesk, or the D2L Helpdesk for assistance. Contact information is also available within the online course environment. CCHelpDesk@ccis.edu ex helpdesk@desire2learn.com Online Tutoring Smarthinking is a free online tutoring service available to all Columbia College students. Smarthinking provides real-time online tutoring and homework help for Math, English, and Writing. The Writing Center can be used for writing assistance in any course. Smarthinking also provides access to live tutorials in writing and math, as well as a full range of study resources, including writing manuals, sample problems, and study skills manuals. You can access the service from wherever you have a connection to the Internet. I encourage you to take advantage of this free service provided by the college. Access Smarthinking through CougarTrack under Students->Academics->Academic Resources.

10 Columbia College Online Campus P a g e 10 Grading Criteria Discussion Rubric GRADE CRITERIA Points Initial Response Reply Full addresses the topical question without spelling or grammatical errors. 10/10 Appropriately responds to at least two other students posts and replies to all students who may respond to your main post. All responses must be thoughtful, focused on the topic, and without grammatical or spelling errors. Total 15/20 5/10 Paper Rubric Criteria Description Points Content Fully responds to the question or writing prompt, addressing all relevant issues 40 Grammar and Spelling Presentation Free of errors in spelling and grammar 5 Well-organized and formatted essay, with full citation for any references used, following APA style Total 50 5