PSY 7501 - Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy: Individual (Cognitive, Psychodynamic, Existential, and Other)

(3 units)

A framework for understanding the patient’s communications—verbal and nonverbal— symptoms and behavioral manifestations with an emphasis on the therapist’s interventions. Special consideration will be given to the specific problems introduced into therapy by different sexual and ethnic contexts. May be repeated for elective credit, provided a different therapeutic orientation is taken. Prerequisite: PSY 6520. (Topics vary) 1) Psychodynamic (Prerequisite: PSY 6524) 2) Cognitive (Prerequisite: PSY 6525) 3) Existential (Prerequisite: PSY 6526)