Learn Counseling in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Application of major models of couple and family therapy to the practice of counselling contemporary couples and families. Students enhance their understanding of the influence on families and couples of cultural context, including race, ethnicity, gender, religious background, primary language, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation. The course addresses contemporary trends in couples and family treatment, including interventions which seek to adapt traditional methods to better serve single-parent, blended, immigrant, foster, or adoptive family systems. Students review and evaluate interventions designed for couples and families facing such issues as sexual difficulties, infertility, chronic illness, abuse/trauma, addiction, divorce, immigration, family life cycle transitions, intimate partner violence, and cultural changes.

An introduction to theories and practice in health psychology. Includes discussion of plausible biological pathways through which psychological / behavioral factors influence physical health and principles of psychological interventions designed to help patients adjust to illness, prevent worsening / recurrence, and promote recovery. Emphasis is on developing literacy with respect to modifiable risk factors and the major chronic illnesses, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes.

Ways to support clients as they choose and manage careers, navigate workplace realities and career transitions, and resolve work-life role conflicts. Grounded in research and theoretical foundations, the course takes a practical, experiential approach to lifelong career and employment counselling. Students are introduced to traditional and emerging theories and models, free and inexpensive resources, and relevant career assessment tools and processes.

This course focuses on the development of helping skills, which will lead to increase effectiveness as a facilitator/teacher trainer. The course is designed to examine both the theoretical and practical aspects of counseling adults. Carkhuff’s Model of Helping will be examined and the seven basic helping skills will be reviewed and practiced. Each participant will be required to submit one taped counseling interview.

This course is designed to enable the student to develop the knowledge and skills required to establish and maintain a helping relationship with oncology and palliative care patients and their families throughout the trajectory of the cancer experience. Topics to be explored include factors affecting coping and helping relationship effective communication and interviewing skills, crisis management, psychosocial issues in Cancer/Palliative care and burnout and ethical issues.

Living With Grief & Loss training courses and programs are available at Continuing Education and Distributed Learning, Lakehead University, or it can provide customized training on your request. Please visit the official website of Continuing Education and Distributed Learning, Lakehead University or call for details.

Examines the family during the later stages of its career. Topics include changing family dynamics, marital satisfaction, intergenerational relations, widowhood, grandparenthood and remarriage.

John Brown University’s Master of Science in School Counseling prepares you for school counseling and guidance positions in elementary and secondary schools. Graduates with a teaching license, full-time teaching experience and a passing score on the PRAXIS exam will be licensed by the Arkansas Department of Education.

Course requirements for the Master of Science in School Counseling include:



Counseling Core (37 hours)
•Human Development
•Social and Cultural Foundations
•Group Theory
•Theories and Techniques of Counseling
•Career Development Information and Vocational Education
•Family of Origin
•Assessment
•Advanced Psychopathology
•Christian Foundations in Counseling
•Child and Adolescent Counseling
•School Policies and Issues
•Pre-Practicum Laboratory

Select one
•Statistics and Research
•Applied Research (Program Director recommendation required)

Electives (3 hours)
•Principles of Family Therapy
•Introduction to Play Therapy
•Advanced Psychopharmacology
•Advanced Techniques in Play Therapy
•Selected Topics in Counseling

School Counseling Emphasis Core (9 hours)
•Practicum I: School Counseling
•Practicum II: School Counseling
•Internship I



Minimum Semester Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 hours

This course covers the relationship between effective communication and coaching and counseling to employee relations. The course uses an interactive case study simulation to address many of the topics.

Participants will examine the ways communication occurs in an organization, communication styles, and techniques for gathering information. The second part of the course explores appropriate uses of coaching and counseling, and also addresses workplace violence, a related topic that must be addressed by HR professionals.

This two-level program examines the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, barbiturates, amphetamines, cocaine, opiates, and hallucinogens, as well as chemicals -- such as aerosols, steroids, and over-the-counter analgesics. Additionally, the course investigates solid strategies for working with clients, the differences between abusers and addicts; drug effects on children, teenagers, and pregnant and nursing women; and children of alcoholics. Addiction counseling professionals treat individuals who are in need of substance abuse counseling as well as offer peace of mind to the families of persons who are in need of drug addiction counseling.