May 05, 2024  
2022-2023 Graduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

COUN 5810 - Child and Adolescent Counseling


Credit Hours: 3
This course will provide students with the theoretical knowledge and clinical skills necessary in the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents. Specific emphasis will be on clinical practice, diagnostic skills, play and expressive arts therapy, family systems, ecosystemic, and evidence based interventions. A review of the literature regarding issues and diagnoses unique to children and adolescents will be conducted. Effective, evidence based clinical interventions for children and adolescents will be demonstarted and praticed. Ethical and legal issues in counseling minors will be examined.