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COURSE OBJECTIVE: To equip and enable students to understand and critique the various models of counseling and to present a thoroughly biblical and gospel centered model of helping people change. To prepare counselors to guide people through change in various relationships and with various issues which are commonly faced while counseling the Word.
COURSE DATES AND SCHEDULE: Monday Evenings 6-9pm beginning Fall 2009 (See Calendar)
READING:
Adams, Jay. Competent to Counsel
Adams, Jay. Christian Counselors Manual
Tripp, Paul David. Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands
Berkhof, Louis. Systematic Theology-pages19-108,126-138, 165-176, 181-261, 305-329, 367-393, 454-549, 593-614
ASSIGNMENTS: (20% of final grade)
For each of the assigned books write a 1-2 page paper interacting with the material presented by the author. Don’t simply summarize the contents, but give me your reactions and how the material has changed you or can be useful in counseling.
TERM PAPER: (30% of final grade)
An assignment due at the end of class summarizing your philosophy of counseling based on all of the course materials presented (8-10 pages).
EXAMS: (50% of final grade)
A Midterm Exam and Final will be the major portion of your grade.
COUNSELING OBSERVATION:
Videos for counseling observation will be watched and discussed in class.
