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PCC 500 Introduction To Pastoral Clinical Mental Health Counseling 3 Credits
This course demonstrates the foundational principles of pastoral care and counseling as part of community-based service by (1) distinguishing the unique approaches of pastoral care, pastoral counseling, and spiritual direction and mental health counseling and (2) articulating one’s own pastoral focus in light of the following themes: history of the evolution of both pastoral and mental health counseling; paradigms of approaches in the mental health field and commitment to advocacy.
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PCC 505 Theology for Pastoral Identity 3 Credits
Using the major questions of theology and spirituality, students form a critical integration which they then apply through case studies and a contemplative theological reflection process. Through this process, they discern, evaluate, and articulate their pastoral/spiritual identity and biblical interpretation for ministry.
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PCC 510 Psychological Foundations 3 Credits
This course provides the psychological foundations for Pastoral Clinical Mental Health Counseling in an orientation to the major classic and contemporary theoretical approaches to counseling, consultation, and advocacy. The groundwork of training in skills and techniques that are necessary for therapeutic interactions is established.
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PCC 527 Trauma and Crisis Counseling 3 Credits
This class combines the most contemporary findings in how to deal with clients who face major life trauma and the aftermath of such trauma. The course begins with a focus on crisis management, possible crisis sequelae, and post-trauma interventions. Training is then offered in working with at- risk clients who may present dangers to themselves or others.
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PCC 550 Developmental Models 3 Credits
In this course, students investigate spiritual maturity according to diverse models of religious and psychological development.
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PCC 555 Perspectives on the Human Person 3 Credits
This course will introduce students to an inter-faith and inter-disciplinary process of examining and engaging human beings and the human condition. Students will begin to develop an integrated understanding of human beings from theological, social, cultural, and psychological contexts. Students will also explore the following questions: 1) “What does it mean to be human?” 2) “How do people change?” 3) “How do people grow?” 4) “How do people heal?” and 5) “How do pastoral counselors facilitate these processes?” Students will also cultivate specific counseling practices that holistically assess and engage the human condition.
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PCC 580 Discernment and Decision-Making 3 Credits
The objectives of this course are (1) to use discernment as an evaluative judgment for decision- making; (2) to explore the meaning of discernment in a variety of spiritual and religious traditions; and (3) to appreciate the contribution of classical teaching to contemporary counseling and spiritual formation and direction.
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PCC 700 Psychopathology 3 Credits
This course, along with PCC 771 , provides an introduction to the broad spectrum of adult psychopathology as contained in the DSM-5. Emphasis is placed upon using the initial diagnostic interview in pastoral counseling to elicit the information necessary to gain a holistic understanding of issues that lead to clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment.
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PCC 710 Marital and Family Counseling 3 Credits
An overview of systems theory for marital, couples, and family counseling is the context for this course. Additional topics, such as family of origin, blended families, abuse, loss, bereavement, divorce, as well as multicultural and ethical issues, are also addressed.
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PCC 720 Personality 3 Credits
This course examines classic and contemporary theories of personality within the context of human growth and development with emphasis on its understanding from the perspective of the NEO-PI. Influences such as genetics and multicultural, ethical, social, and personality testing are weighed for their implications on counseling.
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PCC 730 Ethics and Professional Issues 3 Credits
The major contemporary professional issues in the field of pastoral and mental health counseling including ethical decision making, confidentiality, record-keeping, legal concerns, certification, licensure, and advocacy, are examined through the lens of diversity. Codes of professional mental health organizations (AAPC, APA, ACA) are studied and compared.
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PCC 740 Pre-Clinical Preparation and Orientation 3 Credits
This course focuses on skills needed to begin clinical work, including doing intakes, establishing a therapeutic frame and relationship, clinical assessment, and formulating clinical notes and evaluation. By the end of the course, students are expected to have secured a clinical site for 750, have obtained personal liability insurance, and completed or continue personal therapy (minimum of 12 sessions). This course, which is taken following most/all of the pre-requisite courses, must be completed with an average of 85 or higher (P) before registration into the clinical sequence (PCC 750 , PCC 770 , and PCC 771 ) can be initiated.
Prerequisite(s): PCC 500 , PCC 510 , PCC 700 , PCC 710 , and PCC 730 .
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PCC 750 Clinical Practicum 3 Credits
This course requires a clinical placement with a case load totaling 100 clinical hours in one semester, 40 of which need to be direct client contact. Along with the clinical work, the student meets with a faculty led group class to process clinical work and refine other necessary skills such as clinical notes and treatment planning. Particular attention will also be paid to the integration of multicultural competencies in clinical practice. Audio and/or video recording of clinical work is a requirement.
Prerequisite(s): PCC 740 .
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PCC 760 Groups: Theory and Practice 3 Credits
The principles and theories of group interaction are surveyed. Employing a laboratory-type format, students focus on the dynamics of group processes, as those processes relate to issues of communication, problem solving, decision-making, and social pressure. Work within the class models various group interactions (with a minimum of 10 hours of group processing).
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PCC 770 Internship I 3 Credits
This courses along with the second internship involves an advanced placement with a caseload totaling 600 clinical hours across the two semesters, 240 of which equal direct client service. It focuses on the integration of spirituality into clinical assessment and work. Along with the class meeting and weekly on-site supervision, the student also meets with an individual programmatic supervisor within the program for the equivalent to a minimum of 13 hours across the two semesters. Video or audio recording is a required element of the course.
Prerequisite(s): PCC 750
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PCC 771 Internship II 3 Credits
This courses along with the first internship involves an advanced placement with a caseload totaling 600 clinical hours across the two semesters, 240 of which equal direct client service. The focus of this final clinical course is on advanced skill and insight, such as integrating psychodynamic processes. Along with the class meeting and weekly on-site supervision, the student also meets with an individual programmatic supervisor within the program for the equivalent to a minimum of 13 hours across the two semesters.Video or audio recording is a required element of the course.
Prerequisite(s): PCC 750 .
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PCC 780 Psychological Testing 3 Credits
The principles of testing and a spectrum of bio-psycho-social tests are studied in this course. Issues in testing, such as test bias, as well as legal and ethical aspects of testing, are also examined.
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PCC 781 Career Counseling 3 Credits
Theories and techniques relating to career development over the life span are analyzed. A review of governmental resources, computer guidance systems, and career agencies as well as a variety of online resources is included. This course is presented in a blended hybrid format.
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PCC 782 Research Methods 3 Credits
Students are provided with an overview of basic statistics, types of research and design, ethics and multicultural issues in the use of human subjects, and research literature, with an emphasis on the student becoming an informed consumer of research.
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PCC 785 Addiction Counseling 3 Credits
This course examines the principles of the etiology of, along with approaches to diagnosing and treating those with addictions, and explores recovery from addiction as a process of spiritual and maturational growth. It looks at the different assessment treatment protocols in treating various forms of addiction.
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PCC 786 Multicultural Counseling 3 Credits
This course introduces the student to the ethical practice of integrating and addressing multicultural and cross cultural issues in the counseling and therapeutic process. Students involved in this course are invited to analyze their personal, systemic, and professional worldviews as they move to also evaluate the social, cultural, racial, ethnic, spiritual, religious and gender forces that shape and impact clients’ identities and clinical issues. Students will learn to develop and apply theoretical and practical aspects of multiculturalism in the realms of research, assessments, therapeutic interventions, and other specific counseling practices.
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PCC 789 Trauma and Crisis 3 Credits
This class combines the most contemporary findings in how to deal with clients who face major life trauma and the aftermath of such trauma. The class will open with a focus on crisis management, possible crisis sequelae, and post trauma interventions. The middle two classes will offer training in working with at risk clients who may present dangers to themselves or others. Topics such as assessment, formulation of risk, treatment, service planning and care management - along with legal and ethical issues - will be discussed. The final class will look at the emotional, relational, behavioral, and spiritual repercussions of trauma and stress and what resources the counselor can generate.
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PCC 799 Interdisciplinary Seminar 3 Credits
This capstone seminar allows students to formulate and articulate their own personal integration of psychology and theology both in theory and in practice. In a final Integrative Paper of five chapters modeled on the membership paper of AAPC, each student presents a clinical case as interpreted through his/her own psychological and theological models. The final interview allows for a dialogic, consultative process.
Prerequisite(s): All major course work. (PCC 770 /PCC 771 : Practicum may be taken simultaneously with PCC 799.)
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Graded as Pass/Fail (P/F) only.
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Pastoral Care and Counseling: Spiritual Formation and Direction Certificate Programs Courses |
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PCC 600 History of Christian Spirituality: Formation-Transformation 3 Credits
Students bring their personal questions to great spiritual teachers from Christian antiquity to present times. Implications for spiritual direction are noted in authors such as Desert Mothers and Fathers; Augustine; Francis and Clare of Assisi; Julian of Norwich; Teresa of Avila; Ignatius Loyola; Francis de Sales; Jane de Chantal; as well as Protestant authors and a contemporary author.
Noted in authors such as Desert Mothers and Fathers; Augustine; Francis and Clare of Assisi; Julian of Norwich; Teresa of Avila; Ignatius Loyola; Francis de Sales; Jane de Chantal; as well as Protestant authors and a contemporary author.
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PCC 610 History of Christian Spirituality: Prayer and Social Engagement 3 Credits
This course incorporates the methodology of PCC 600 by investigating such authors as Benedict, Ignatius of Loyola, Bonaventure, John of the Cross, Francis de Sales, selected Protestant authors, and a modern spirituality teacher of the student’s choice.
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PCC 650 Spiritual Formation and Direction: Engaging Traditions 3 Credits
In this course, students analyze literature related to ecumenical and interfaith spiritual direction, and they apply guidelines for direction provided by Christian spiritual teachers. As a result, students (1) identify theological assumptions inherent in Benedictine, Franciscan, Ignatian, Carmelite, Salesian, and selected Reform perspectives, etc. on discernment; (2) integrate the theory of spiritual direction by means of real experience and experiential practice within the classroom; (3) describe and evaluate their own introductory level practice of spiritual direction.
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PCC 660 Spiritual Direction: Cultural Challenges 3 Credits
This course integrates the theory of spiritual direction with experiential practice and real experience within the classroom. Through this integration of theory and practice, students (1) evaluate current literature related to theological, psychological, and cultural foundations for spiritual direction as a ministry and profession; (2) participate in the professional discussion of cultural challenges and spiritual direction; and (3) assess their own practice of ongoing spiritual direction.
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PCC 680 Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Direction Practicum I 3 Credits
This course offers students the opportunity to meet with an experienced spiritual director/instructor with other mentors and, beginning directors in order to describe and evaluate the experience of a sustained ministry of spiritual formation and direction in diverse settings. The student is expected to meet with three to five directees/mentees per month in a placement setting that has been mutually agreed upon with the course instructor. This experience of providing the ministry of spiritual formation and direction is also discussed in a 90-minute monthly meeting with an approved spiritual formation or spiritual direction supervisor.
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Graded as Pass/Fail (P/F) only.
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PCC 690 Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Direction Practicum II 3 Credits
This course offers students the opportunity kto meet in class with an experienced spiritual director/instructor and with other mentors, directors, supervisors in order to describe and evaluate the experience of a sustained ministry of spiritual formation and direction in diverse settings. The student is expected to meet with 3-5 directees/mentees per month in a placement setting that has been mutually agreed upon with the course instructor. This experience of providing the ministry of spiritual formation and direction is also discussed in a 90-minute monthly meeting with an approved spiritual formation or spiritual direction supervisor.
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Graded as Pass/Fail (P/F) only.
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