CP 5208 Adv Couns Tech:Brief & Strat
Presentation and practice of brief and strategic psychotherapy models and disaster and trauma response is applied within managed care organizations, communities, and clinical settings. Contemporary models include evidence-based, Solution-Focused, Narrative, and I.D.E. approaches applied to consumers and their families, diverse cultural and socioeconomic groups, and HMO’s to promote resilience, health, and healthy functioning. Issues addressed include behavioral addiction, co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders, personality disorders, psycho sexual dysfunction, and other DSM 5 categories as appropriate. Guest speakers present applications of Brief and Strategic therapy to diverse communities and cultures such as military bases, hospital wards, recovery centers, and prisons. This course is restricted to students In the Counseling Psychology Graduate Program.