CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT PLANNING FOR COUNSELORS

COUNPSY 745

Course Description

Examine the treatment and practice implications of different mental health diagnoses and adjustment disorders. Reviews advanced principles of mental health diagnoses based on DSM 5 and ICD 10 nomenclatures and contextualizes this review for the practice of counseling applied and adapted for a diversity of clients and communities. Additionally, counseling strategies are reviewed for challenges with adjustment within various sociocultural contexts. Review empirically supported interventions for specific disorders as well as common factors that have been empirically supported as efficacious across disorders. Includes an examination of the cultural foundation of the counseling profession's and clients' explanatory models for (a) psychological and mental health distress as well as (b) healing and treatment strategies.

Prerequisties

Declared in Counseling Psychology or Counseling

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average

0.17% from Historical

Completion Rate

100%

No change from Historical

A Rate

100%

1.41% from Historical

Class Size

-2.78% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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