Section Info: PSYCH-329BT-01

Course Title: Seminar in Personality and Abnormal Psychology: 'Counseling Practice: Interviewing, Assessment, and Basic Theories'

Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025

Term: Fall Semester 2025

Description: This course is an introduction to the practice of counseling theory and service. The course will begin with basic interviewing and assessment skills to support you in learning how to design, structure, and conduct a psychiatric interview. We will then review several basic theories of clinical practice (e.g., behavior therapy, humanistic, interpersonal, acceptance and commitment therapy), with the emphasis on case conceptualization, interview skills to guide intervention, and initial intervention design.

Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , SI - Speaking-Intensive , TP - Topics Course

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:4.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
Alyssa Norris		anorris@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025	Lecture	Monday	01:30PM - 04:20PM	TBA	TBA	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
Prereq: PSYCH-204.	Take previously	Required

Comments

Additional Comments

This course is a speaking-heavy course including role playing, interviews, and interactive assessments that will be assessed via video/audio by the professor and peers in the class.

Course Tags

Cross-listed Sections

None

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted	Capacity: 15	Enrollment: 15	Available: 0	Waitlist: 23

Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.