COUN 751 - Community Mental Health Counseling

Prerequisites
COUN 604 and COUN 621

This is an advanced counseling course designed to prepare students to understand the community mental health system and the role of counselors in community mental health settings, including counseling in context, outreach to distressed and marginalized clients, client and system advocacy, community collaboration and developmental and preventive interventions. This course considers the limitations of the person-focused counseling paradigms. Drawing from principles of social justice, science, theory and professional expertise, this course examines culturally-responsive community-based programs in crisis, disaster and/or trauma counseling and clinical work with severely mentally-ill populations. Attention is given to developing needs assessments in order to design, implement, and evaluate community counseling programs, interventions and systems and systems that include families and communities as partners in these programs.

Course credits: 3