PSY 17500 Introduction to Counseling

Are you the person people come to with their problems? Do you enjoy offering help and support to others? If so, explore a career in counseling. Through this course students will be introduced to the counseling profession Students will review the history of the profession, counseling theories, ethics and multicultural counseling. In examining the counseling relationship students will be introduced to counseling techniques, conditions that facilitate effective counseling relationships, stages of the counseling process and settings where professional counselors are employed.