ATC 521 - Individual Counseling and Psychotherapy

3 Credit Hours
This course provides students with the opportunity to integrate various theoretical approaches to individual counseling and psychotherapy and their relation to art psychotherapy approaches. The therapist’s values and ethics are addressed. Principles of dynamics, therapeutic factors, therapist and client roles and behaviors, leadership styles and approaches, selection criteria, art-based communication, and short- and long-term individual art therapy and counseling will be reviewed. The goal of the course is to provide the student with an opportunity to continue the development of an approach to individual counseling, psychotherapy, and art therapy.