Practical Experience in Christian Counseling

The course provides guided instruction and supervised counseling experience for students in their ministry setting. Students are expected to complete a minimum of 100 hours of practical counseling experience.

PREREQUISITE: Completion of all coursework.

UPON COMPLETION OF THE COURSE, THE STUDENT WILL BE COMPETENT IN:

• Demonstrating skill in building the counselor-counselee relationship.
• Identifying relevant treatment goals for counselees.
• Applying appropriate counseling techniques in a Christian counseling setting.
• Demonstrating consistency in the application of the counselor’s conceptual framework.
• Evaluating the progress of the counselee with regard to stated treatment goals.
• Demonstrating ethical and legally defensible practice.
• Recognizing and dealing with personal issues which could interfere with counseling effectiveness.
• Accepting and incorporating feedback for the purpose of personal and professional growth.
• Understanding professionally accepted theories and methods applicable to individual, marriage, and family counseling.
• Incorporating 100 hours of practical experience in a manner that maximizes learning.
• Demonstrating counseling skills during fifty hours of supervised face-to-face counseling.
• Developing and incorporating an Informed Consent Form that is applicable to the student’s counseling site.
• Demonstrating an understanding of confidentiality and its limitations.
• Understanding dual and multiple relationships and their effect on counselor effectiveness.
• Understanding the difference between counseling within the context of one’s beliefs and imposing one’s beliefs on the counselee.