2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Nov 21, 2024

2024-2025 Academic Catalog

PSYC 259 - Psychotherapies

This course provides an overview of the major theoretical approaches to conducting psychotherapy. There is a strong emphasis on diversity issues in psychotherapy throughout the course, as well as ongoing consideration regarding how therapeutic interventions can be evaluated empirically. Students are exposed to the various therapeutic approaches through primary source readings, class illustrations and discussion, videos, and a final research paper.

Prerequisites for this course require a grade of C- or better

This course fulfills the mid-level First Seminar requirement of the Psychology major.

Prerequisites: PSYC 108

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically