The rationale of the course is equipping students with the knowledge and expertise to support their work as professional person-centred/ humanistic counsellors. It aims to integrate students’ counselling skills practice with academic study at undergraduate level and to facilitate student learning areas of counselling practice: counselling skills, counselling related theory and personal development.
• Islam & Muslims
• Counseling & Islamic Counseling
• Spirituality and Islamic Counseling
• Understanding Human nature and personality development in the Islamic Context
• Psychological health: Cultural and religious influences
• Understating the Muslim clients
• Islamic ethics related to counseling
• Skills and approaches
• Psychodynamic counseling
• Post-Freudian psychodynamic counseling
• Phenomenological and humanistic approaches
• Assessment, models and intervention strategies
• Counseling therapy and psychodrama
• Transactional analysis
• Behavioral and cognitive behavioral approaches
• The group context
• Ethical considerations