Counselling Psychology- Course-Based Route

Course Overview

Counselling Psychology is a helping profession devoted to preventing, remediating and ameliorating emotional, cognitive, behavioural, and interpersonal difficulties as well as enhancing human potential and quality of life. These aims are achieved through the integration of science with practice and the development of awareness and skills to work with diverse populations from individual, social and organizational perspectives. The Course-Based Counselling Psychology program is intended to train competent practitioners who have a solid professional ability that enables them to adapt to the changing and diversifying roles of a psychologist. The program is based on the scholar-practitioner model of professional practice. It is designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills and judgment necessary to function effectively as a psychologist in a variety of settings. The course-based route is not designed to prepare students for the Ph. D. Those wishing to pursue the Ph. D. in Counselling Psychology at the University of Alberta should apply to the thesis-based route. The program is comprised of 12 three-credit courses, including a capping project, completed over a 2-year period.

Program Outline