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91 CO 554 Counseling Adolescents Provides a theoretical foundation and working knowledge of contemporary interventions for adolescents. Specific adolescent issues and treatment strategies will be explored. Materials used in the course are aimed at helping students develop basic skills necessary for effectively counseling and communicating with adolescents. Prerequisite: CO 503 Human Development and Counseling. Offered alternate years. Two hours. CO 555 Addictions and Counseling Discusses the etiology, distinctives, and specific difficulties related to addictive behaviors. Group and individual approaches to the treatment of substance abuse and other addictions are presented. Attention is given to preventive strategies and therapeutic interventions to address substance abuse and other addictions. Offered fall and spring semesters. Three hours. CO 557 Missions and Counseling Explores the growing area of the application of counseling and care ministries in mission contexts. The focus is on supporting missionaries to fulfill the mandate of world evangelization. Attention is given to the training of nationals as counselors and counseling cross-culturally. Models, skills, case studies, and resources are discussed. May also credit as an intercultural ministry elective. Offered alternate years. Two hours. CO 560 Brief Counseling Examines the philosophical base, strategies, and Christian implications of several models of brief counseling, such as problem-solving, integrated problem, and solution-focused. Attention is given to the practical techniques of each model. The use of homework techniques in therapy, including the use of cinema therapy, is addressed. Also discussed is trauma incident reduction as a form of brief counseling for trauma survivors. Prerequisites: CO 510 Counseling Foundations or CO 526 Therapeutic Communication. Offered fall semesters. Two hours. CO 570 Brief Counseling Practicum A laboratory course for students who wish to observe and clinically practice the basic features of brief counseling from a Christian perspective within their particular ministry target population. Instructor and peer group supervision of written and video student-client cases will form the basis for feedback concerning the student's brief counseling skills. Pre- or corequisite: CO 560 Brief Counseling. Offered fall semesters. One hour. CO 590, 690 Studies in Counseling These course numbers are reserved for courses of special or one-time interest that do not otherwise appear in the catalog. Two or three hours. CO 591, 691 Individualized Study in Counseling These course numbers are reserved for courses that are designed to free the student for independent investigation in counseling under the guidance of a professor. One to three hours. CO 601 Research and Evaluation in Counseling Familiarizes students with basic concepts related various research methods, research designs, reliability and validity of research, evidence based research, critical evaluation of published research, and steps required to develop and design an ethical experimental research project. Students will be introduced to scales of measurement, descriptive statistics, and basic univariate inferential statistics commonly used in counseling research and program evaluation. Also explored is the evaluation process and needs