COUN 537 Spiritual Formation and Faith Based Counseling

In this course, students explore personal and professional issues of faith and spirituality as they pertain to clinical competency in professional counseling. Through experiential learning, students conceptualize client development using a variety of spiritual formation models and understand how diverse orientations may relate to his or her own spiritual faith journey and identity. Students also have the opportunity to develop a counseling framework that works through the identification of universal themes and respect for alternative faith traditions with a particular emphasis on the Christian perspective.