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86 skills necessary for effectively counseling and communicating with children, adolescents and their families. 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. 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, or instructor permission. 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. 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 assessment that is vital to effective counseling and program enhancement. This course is an introductory survey of the field designed to aid the student in becoming an informed consumer of research data. (For students enrolled in the MA in Counseling program writing a thesis) A dedicated section of CO 601 will be available to provide counseling majors with the necessary background to conduct research and write a thesis in subsequent semesters. Taught primarily in a seminar format, students in this section will select and develop an individual research topic and prepare a preliminary proposal that may form the basis of a thesis proposal in the following semester. It will cover the same topic areas as other sections of CO 601, but assignments and the class format will differ. Priority will be given to students who are seriously considering writing a thesis. Other counseling students may be allowed into this section with permission of the Division and if space allows. Three hours.