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Courses Offered in COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY

The following courses are available for your Associate's degree. Each course provides you a unique educational experience. Each course is developed by an international staff of highly skilled instructors. The course material is updated to provide students with the latest current information in the subject.

Core Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Personality Psychology

  • This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the key personality theorists by combining biographical information on each theorist with his or her contributions to the field. The unique style of this enables you to easily grasp an understanding of the key people and movements in the field of personality.

  • 6 Credits

  • Developmental Psychology

  • The Course offers an eclectic, interdisciplinary approach to the study of adolescence, presenting both psychological and sociological viewpoints as well as educational, demographic, and economic data. The course takes into consideration current and important topics such as ethnic identity formation, gender issues, the Internet, and the effects of single-parent families.

  • 6 Credits

  • Biological and Cognitive Psychology

  • This course incorporates neuroscience seamlessly into the study of cognitive psychology. This course takes a fresh look at the field, and presents it as it actually is today. By integrating findings about the brain into the usual fare for this topic, it provides the foundation for you to study current research in the field. 

  • 6 Credits

  • Neuropsychology

  • This course will provide an overview of the neural systems supporting our perception of spatial world, and the movements of our bodies within it. This course will draw special emphasis to the study of visual perception, memory and language processing, attention or action, human brain damages and recovery.

  • 6 Credits

  • Psychology

  • Course introduces the field of psychology and its basic concepts, theories, research methods, and contributions to the understanding of human behavior. Topics include the nervous system, perception, motivation, learning and memory, social behavior, personality, developmental, and clinical psychology. The past and current theories and contributions of major psychologists are explored.

  • 6 Credits
Specialized Course

Personality psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction.
    The psychoanalytic legacy: sigmund freud.
    Personality's ancestral foundation: carl jung.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Overcoming inferiority and striving for superiority: alfred adler.
    Moving toward, away from, and against others: karen horney.
    Personality from the interpersonal perspective: harry stack sullivan.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The seasons of our lives: erik erikson.
    The sociopsychological approach to personality: erich fromm.
    Every person is to be prized: carl rogers.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Becoming all that one can be: abraham maslow.
    Marching to a different drummer: george kelly.
    The social - cognitive approach to personality: walter mischel and julian rotter.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Thinking ahead and learning mastery of one's circumstances: albert bandura.
    It's all a matter of consequences: b. f. skinner.
    Human needs and environmental press: henry a. murray.
    The trait approach to personality: raymond cattell and hans eysenck.
    Personality development and prejudice: gordon allport.
    Where is personality theory going?

Developmental psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Adolescents in social
    Adolescents in theoretical
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Adolescent diversity: socioeconomic status and ethnicity
    Body issues: sexual maturation and physical growth
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Body issues: health-related behaviors and attitudes
    Traditional approaches to cognitive development: piaget and elkind
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    New approaches to cognitive development: information processing, decision making, and assessment issues
    Self-concept, identity, ethnicity, and gender
    Sexual values and behavior
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Adolescents and their families
    Divorced, parent-absent, and blended families
    Social development: the changing nature of friendship and romance
    Adolescent society, culture, and subculture
    The development of moral values
    Education and school
    Work and vocation
    Adolescent alienation
    Substance abuse, addiction, and dependency

Biological and cognitive psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    How the brain gives rise to the mind.
    Perception.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Attention.
    Representation and knowledge in long-term memory.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Encoding and retrieval from long-term memory.
    Working memory.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Executive processes.
    Emotion and cognition.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Decision making.
    Problem solving and reasoning.
    Motor cognition and mental simulation.
    Language.

Neuropsychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction to neuropsychology
    Neuroanatomy
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Techniques in neuropsychology
    Laterality
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The sensorimotor system
    Sensation and perception: vision
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Memory
    Hearing and language processing
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Emotion
    Spatial ability
    Attention and consciousness
    Humans, human brains, and evolution
    Neural development and developmental disorders
    Human brain damage
    Neuropsychological assessment
    Recovery of function

Psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The science of psychology.
    How psychologists do research.
    Evolution, genes, and behavior.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Neurons, hormones, and the brain.
    Body rhythms and mental states.
    Sensation and perception.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Learning and conditioning.
    Behavior in social and cultural context.
    Thinking and intelligence.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Memory.
    Emotion.
    Motivation.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Theories of personality.
    Development over the lifespan.
    Health, stress and coping.
    Psychological disorders.
    Approaches to treatment and therapy.

Counseling Psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The context for counseling.
    Stages and skills of counseling.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Rapport and relationship.
    Assessing client problems.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Developing counseling goals.
    Defining strategies and selecting interventions.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Affective interventions.
    Cognitive interventions.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Behavioral interventions.
    Systemic interventions.
    Termination and follow-up.
    Applying counseling skills to other counselor functions.

Multicultural Counseling and Psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Society, culture, counseling, and human services.
    The emerging self and social learning.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Social, cultural, and racial identity.
    Cultural, racial, and ethnic identity models.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Sex, gender, and sexual orientation identity.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Family, culture, and self-concept development.
    Social class and economic considerations.
    Counseling and cultural diversity.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Ethical and legal issues.

Behavior Modification

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction
    Areas of application: an overview
    Getting a behavior to occur more often with positive reinforcement
    Developing and maintaining behavior with conditioned reinforcement
    Decreasing a behavior with extinction
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Developing behavioral persistence through the use of intermittent reinforcement
    Types of intermittent reinforcement to decrease behavior
    Doing the right thing at the right time and place: stimulus discrimination and stimulus generalization
    Developing appropriate behavior with fading
    Getting a new behavior to occur: an application of shaping
    Getting a new sequence of behaviors to occur with behavioral chaining
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Eliminating inappropriate behavior through punishment
    Establishing a desirable behavior by using escape and avoidance conditioning
    Procedures based on principles of respondent conditioning
    Respondent and operant conditioning together
    Transferring behavior to new settings and making it last: generality of behavior change
    Capitalizing on exisiting stimulus control: rules and goals
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Capitalizing on exisiting stimulus control: modeling, guidance, and situational inducement
    Motivation and behavior modification
    Behavioral assessment: initial considerations
    Direct behavioral assessment: what to record and how
    Functional assessment of the causes of problem behavior
    Doing research in behavior modification
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Planning, applying, and evaluating a treatment program
    Token economies
    Helping an individual to develop self-control
    Cognitive behavior modification
    Areas of clinical behavior therapy
    Giving it all some perspective: a brief history
    Ethical issues

Career Counseling

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction to career information, career counseling, and career development.
    Trait-and-factor and developmental theories of career choice and development and their applications.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Learning theorybased, postmodern, socioeconomic, and decision-making theories and their applications.
    A values-based, multicultural approach to career counseling and advocacy
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Clients with special needs.
    Testing and assessment in career development.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Finding, organizing, and using occupational information.
    Using technology in career assessment, career exploration, and career counseling.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Preparing for work.
    Job placement, outplacement, and the job-search process.
    Designing and implementing comprehensive k12 career development programs within the framework of the asca national model.
    Career development in community and four-year colleges and vocationaltechnical schools.
    Trends in the labor market and the factors that shape them.
    Understanding and using occupational classification systems.
    Career development in business.
    Career counselors in private practice: counseling, coaching, consulting, and beyond.
    Ethics and the competencies and credentials needed for career development practice.
    Trends and issues in career information, career development, and career development programming.

School Counseling Development

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The profession of school counseling
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Understanding schools and students
    School counselor competencies: promoting systemic change through leadership, advocacy, collaboration, and teaming
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Comprehensive school counseling programs: planning, implementation, evaluation
    Data-driven school counseling programs: management and accountability
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Facilitating academic transitions
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Guidance curriculum
    Individual planning
    Responsive services: direct interventions
    Responsive services: indirect interventions
    System support
    Legal and ethical concerns in school counseling
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