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Teaching a Course in Counseling Theories and Practice: Description and Evaluation
Author(s) -
BURCK HARMAN,
JACOBS EDWARD,
SAUBER RICHARD,
STONE WINIFRED,
THOMSON WILLIAM
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1973.tb01546.x
Subject(s) - psychology , course (navigation) , task (project management) , cognition , teaching method , mathematics education , medical education , medicine , physics , management , astronomy , neuroscience , economics
This article describes and evaluates an innovative way to teach a counseling theories and practices course to beginning counseling students. Cognitive and affective learning processes, continuous and systematic feedback, small group dynamics, and a cross‐sectional approach to teaching theoretical concepts and techniques are described. This approach was implemented by using the following instructional format: didactic, demonstration, task simulation, and self‐exploration. Evaluation included self—peer, student‐staff, and staff‐student evaluations and used measures obtained from six instrumented indices. Results suggest that this approach might be a useful alternative to teaching the traditional didactic course in theories and practices of counseling.