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This course is a survey of the applications of psychological principles,
theories, and concepts as they relate to learning and behavior
management and change in the formal learning process. Special
consideration will be given to trends and issues, with emphasis on
current research in educational psychology.

PSYC 701 HISTORY AND THEORY OF PASTORAL COUNSELING
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
An examination will be made of the historical, philosophical, and
psychological foundations of the pastoral care/counseling movement.
Emphasis will be placed on the influence of the following psychologies:
Freudian, Adlerian, Jungian, Rogerian, and Humanistic, philosophies:
existentialism, personalism, pragmatism, and phenomenalism; and
theologies: Fundamentalism, Neo-Orthodoxy, Liberalism, and
Existentialism. The clinical pastoral counseling movement will be
investigated by the demands made by the social and cultural trends
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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

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