Models of Counselling and Client Change : Graduate Counselling and Applied Psychology (GCAP) 631

Overview

GCAP 631: Models of Counselling and Client Change invites students to consider, question, and critically examine the role of counselling theories and models in light of a) research regarding what contributes to successful counselling outcomes and b) lenses of critique that include feminism, post-modernism, and multiculturalism.

The course is designed to provide students with both a survey of contemporary counselling models and a broad-based framework for pragmatic scrutiny of these models. Emphasis is placed on the latter by introducing students to bodies of research and methods of critical reflection that decentralize and contextualize the role of theories and models within the practice of counselling.

Outline

• Lesson 1: An Introduction to Theories and Models of Counselling
• Lesson 2: Postmodernism and Counselling Theory
• Lesson 3: The Person of the Counsellor (with Adlerian Therapy)
• Lesson 4: Multicultural and Feminist Critiques of Counselling Theory
• Lesson 5: Evidence-Based Practice in Counselling (with Psychoanalytic Therapies / Psychodynamic Therapies)
• Lesson 5: Psychotherapy Outcome Research
• Lesson 7: Empirically Supported Treatments (with Cognitive Therapies)
• Lesson 8: Common Factors of Change
• Lesson 9: The Client as a Common Factor (with Solution-Focused and Narrative Therapy)
• Lesson: 10: The Counselling Model as a Common Factor
• Lesson 11: Therapeutic Relationship as a Common Factor (with Rogerian Therapy)
• Lesson 12: Hope, Placebo, and Expectation as a Common Factor (with Gestalt Therapy)
• Lesson 13: Psychotherapy Integration

Course Evaluation

To receive credit for GCAP 631, students must submit all of the course assignments. The passing grade for the course is B- (70%). The weighting of assignments is as follows.