Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology Catalog: 1979-1980

PLB 705 BRIEF PSYCHOTHERAPIES (3)

Models and approaches in brief interventions with special attention to crisis intervention, emergency room work, as well as systems approaches (Watz­ lawick, Haley, M. Erickson). Prerequisite: permission of instructor. (Elective.) PLB 709 THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION (3) This course focuses exclusively on clinical approaches to assessment and therapeutic intervention in relation to sexual dysfunction within the marital dyad. Prerequisites: PLB 671, PSY 708, and permission of instructor. (Elective.) PLB 710 EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY (3) Study and practice of the therapeutic relationship and the process of therapy from a growth or actualization perspective, including the approaches of selected theorists such as Rogers, Gendlin, Perls, and selected existential therapists. Prerequisites: PSY 551 and permission of instructor. (Elective .) PLB 715 CURRENT PSYCHOTHERAPIES (3) This course will focus each time it is offered on a specific therapy not regularly included in Rosemead's curriculum, including such approaches as Transac­ tional Analysis, Logotherapy, Psychodrama, Rational-Emotive Therapy, Reality Therapy, and others. Teaching personnel will be drawn from the professional community of active practitioners of the specific modality to be considered. Prerequisites: as determined by the individual instructor. (Elective.) THEOLOGY This series of courses provides students with essential biblical and theologi­ cal understanding prerequisite to effective integration of the disciplines of psychology and theology. THE 505 BIBLICAL STUDIES I (3) An introductory course which surveys the background and teaching of the Old Testament and is designed to equip students with the skills that will enable them to integrate psychology and theology. THE 506 BIBLICAL STUDIES II (1) A continuation of THE 505 with emphasis on the development of a biblically based system of ethics.

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