Explore historic and well-established contemporary counseling theories, principles and techniques of counseling and their application in professional counseling settings.
Differentiate CBT from other therapies.
Identify populations for whom CBT is appropriate.
Identify 3 CBT techniques that you will use with your population.
Learn how to increase determination using CBT
For mental health and addiction counselors (LPC, LMHC, LPCC, LADC, CADC, and counselors in training), social workers (LCSW, LMSW, LSW, RSW), pastoral staff, case managers (CCM) and marriage and family therapists (LMFT).
Identify the differences between anticipated and sudden loss and at least five factors that affect individual reactions to loss.
Explore how people perceive and make sense of trauma and unexpected change and what information and education is most helpful immediately after death.
Learn effective presence and support measures, self-care techniques, including self-awareness, externalization and actions.
Review associated complications that can arise from sudden and/or violent death and how to effectively mourn the person who died and maintain a healthy connection.
Become familiar with some definitions of counselor identity from the counseling literature.
Get acquainted with common themes related to counselor identity, such as professional competence, professional community, and professional self.
Learn about Martin Heidegger's philosophical anthropology of the human person and how it can expand our understanding of counselors' professional identity.
Be introduced to the idea of professional competence as related to counselors' beliefs and attitudes, knowledge of the profession's history, and professional skill set.
Learn about the importance of belonging to a professional community and collaborating with other related helping professionals .
Understand the basic tenets of ethical behavior.
Integrate prior understanding with the knowledge acquired in this chapter.
Use moral principles to conceptualize an ethical dilemma.
Identify an ethical dilemma within the context of an ethical decision-making model.