Spring 2027

Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Diagnosis and Treatment Planning for Counselors

Advanced course examining mental health diagnosis using DSM-5 and ICD-10, treatment planning, and culturally responsive counseling strategies for diverse clients.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Joelle Taknint

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Conduct intake assessments that gather comprehensive biopsychosocial data and mental health history

  • Formulate clinical diagnoses with clients on internship within diverse sociocultural contexts and across a broad range of mental health disorders and distress

  • Develop understanding of the sociocultural foundation and diversity associated with the explanatory models used to infer etiological assumptions and treatment implications for clients’ mental health distress and healing strategies

  • Demonstrate familiarity with empirically supported interventions associated with specific mental health disorders as well as the empirical support for the common factors approach to counseling interventions

  • Demonstrate skill in soliciting information to inform treatment goals and strategies and in collaborating with clients to formulate treatment plans

  • Demonstrate case management skills, as well as skills to monitor and evaluate client progress, goal attainment, and outcomes in counseling interventions and how to use client feedback to adapt treatment and intervention strategies

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Counseling Psychology or Counseling

  • Declared in Counseling Psychology or Counseling
COUNPSY 745

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  • Declared in Counseling Psychology or Counseling

Professors

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Mental health diagnosis using DSM-5 and ICD-10 nomenclatures
  • Culturally responsive counseling practice for diverse clients and communities
  • Empirically supported interventions and common factors in counseling
  • Sociocultural explanatory models of distress and healing

Skills

  • Conduct intake assessments gathering comprehensive biopsychosocial data and mental health history
  • Formulate clinical diagnoses within diverse sociocultural contexts and across a broad range of mental health disorders
  • Demonstrate familiarity with empirically supported interventions and the common factors approach to counseling
  • Collaborate with clients to formulate treatment plans and solicit information to inform treatment goals
  • Apply case management skills to monitor client progress and adapt treatment using client feedback

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COUNPSY 745 · Spring 2027

Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Diagnosis and Treatment Planning for Counselors

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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