Cognitive, psychosocial, person-environment interaction, and life-span development theories in counseling.
Athena Title
Developmental Counseling
Prerequisite
ECHD 7040
Semester Course Offered
Offered summer semester every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will understand major theories of human development and their relevance to counseling.
Students will understand the basic techniques derived from selected developmental theories.
Students will understand the relationship between socialization and development in different cultural contexts.
Students will understand research and assessment approaches associated with selected theories across cultures.
Students will understand how to demonstrate techniques associated with selected theories.
Students will understand how to apply a developmental perspective to the diagnosis and analysis of client functioning.
Students will understand how to evidence a growing awareness of the diversity of theoretical approaches to counseling and human development.
Students will understand how to show an increased awareness of one's own personal theory of human development.
Students will understand how to support a professional commitment to the practice of developmentally-oriented counseling.
Students will understand how to demonstrate an appreciation that the tension between independence and interdependence generates a continuum of idealized cultural scripts in human development.
