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trends and reforms of the 20 century.

PSYC 703 PASTORAL DIAGNOSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY (DSMIV)
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
Through demonstrations and practice students will learn how to conduct a
pastoral diagnostic interview, set therapy goals, and devise a counselee
treatment plan. Through this process they will gain competency in empathy,
active listening, observation, non-verbal communication, tracking meanings,
and the understanding of the counselee’s religious and spiritual dynamics.
They will be more sensitive to God’s presence in the counseling experience and
be able to identify and treat therapeutically the potential psychopathologies of
guilt, anger, resentment, fear, distrust, sin, rejection, conversion, confession,
forgiveness, judgment, redemption, and salvation. Attention will be given to a
pastoral counselor’s use and abuse of power through the techniques of
personal reflection, prayer, and blessing.

PSYC 705 RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL RESOURCES IN COUNSELING
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
Attention will be given to the development of diagnostic skills in order to
identify the counselee’s religious and spiritual resources that can be utilized in
facing psychological problems. Counselors will learn how to distinguish their
counselee’s existential questions, which are inherent in interpersonal conflicts.
Issues of counselee self-worth, self-esteem, self-image, and self-confidence will
be addressed. Students will learn how to identify and examine individual and
institutional belief and value systems. Emphasis will be given to the
development of the counselor’s own spiritual resources to enhance his or her
counseling and to decrease the possibility of “counselor burnout.” Students
will be required to write their own spiritual and religious biography.

PSYC 707 CONGREGATIONAL INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS AND
PASTORAL CARE
Prerequisites: PSYC 731, 701
Credits: 3
The purpose of the course is to explore the meaning of pastoral care in the
larger systems context of a congregation organization or institution. What is
the role of Pastoral care in administration, outreach, small groups educational
programs and worship? What does one need to know about Pastoral care
planning for the different ages of persons? How does a Pastoral leader help a

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