Department of Counseling Psychology
Introduction to the Department
Counseling psychology is the study of understanding the human mind and relationships, as well as growth and recovery. Even amid the rapid changes of the AI era, the value of deep understanding of human beings and empathetic communication is becoming increasingly important. The Department of Counseling Psychology aims to cultivate professional counselors who help people change and recover in various fields by connecting psychological understanding with actual counseling experience.
Educational Goals
- To help prospective counselors develop into professional counselors by promoting self-development and mature personal growth through a curriculum that combines counseling theory and practice.
- To acquire counseling theories and counseling techniques that enable students to understand and support clients according to different areas of psychological problems.
- To acquire counseling theories and counseling techniques that enable students to understand and support clients according to different areas of career and vocational problems.
- To acquire counseling theories and counseling techniques that enable students to understand and support clients in a considerate atmosphere according to different counseling target groups, including children, adolescents, adults, older adults, and women.
- To cultivate a strong spirit of care for helping clients as professional counselors.
- To cultivate a counseling philosophy that can help clients realize their true selves.
Vision
General Companies: 22% : EAP counseling, counseling within organizations, human resources and welfare fields, etc.
Sexual Counseling Centers: 7% : Sexual counseling, sex education, prevention of and counseling for sexual violence, etc.
Private Counseling Centers: 7% : Individual counseling, psychological and emotional counseling, therapeutic counseling, etc.
Youth Institutions: 29% : Youth counseling, program operation, support for at-risk youth, etc.
Service Counseling: 14% : Customer counseling, telephone counseling, online counseling services, etc.
School Faculty and Staff: 21% : Professional school counselors, Wee Class, educational welfare, etc.
Course Descriptions
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Basic Psychology and Human Understanding Area
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Developmental Psychology
This course helps students understand the developmental process across the entire human life span and cultivate the ability to interpret clients’ problems from a developmental perspective based on developmental theories and ecological contexts.
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Introduction to Psychology
This course helps students comprehensively understand human cognition, emotions, and behavior, and learn the foundations for understanding problems in human life based on psychological knowledge and skills.
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Educational Psychology
This course helps students understand learners’ development and individual differences, teaching and learning processes, learning theories, guidance, and counseling theories, and addresses psychological problems in educational settings.
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Personality Psychology
This course helps students understand the concept of personality, the process of personality formation, measurement methods, and counseling applications, and apply various personality traits to real life and counseling settings.
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Learning Psychology
This course helps students understand the factors and principles through which learning occurs, mainly from behavioral and cognitive perspectives, and learn various aspects of human learning.
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Abnormal Psychology
This course helps students understand the concepts of normality and abnormality and psychopathology, and learn the types and causes of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral disorders in childhood and adolescence.
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Counseling Theory and Counseling Techniques Area
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Counseling Psychology
This course helps students understand the definition and basic principles of counseling, the counseling process, counselor response skills, major counseling theories, and recent trends.
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Counseling Theories and Practice
This course explores major counseling theories, including psychoanalysis, person-centered counseling, cognitive-behavioral approaches, Gestalt therapy, transactional analysis, and reality therapy, and helps students learn actual counseling methods.
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Basics of Counseling Interview
This course helps students learn basic counseling interview skills and practice interview methods and principles commonly used across various counseling theories.
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Counseling Process and Techniques
This course helps students understand various principles and techniques that occur in the counseling process and develop the ability to apply them to actual counseling through practice.
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Advanced Counseling Interview
This course helps students acquire advanced counseling interview skills, including attending skills and skills that influence clients, and apply them in counseling settings.
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Psychodynamic Counseling
This course helps students systematically understand psychodynamic counseling theories and develop the ability to apply them in counseling settings to solve clients’ problems.
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Psychological Assessment and Research Methods Area
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Psychological Statistics
This course helps students understand the basics of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, and conduct basic statistical analyses such as pre-post mean differences and independent sample t-tests.
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Psychological Testing
This course helps students understand and administer various psychological tests, including intelligence tests, personality tests, and behavioral tests, and objectively assess clients’ problems.
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Advanced Psychological Testing
This course helps students comprehensively use intelligence assessment, personality assessment, and various psychological tests, and prepare psychological assessment reports for a comprehensive understanding of clients.
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Youth Counseling and Youth Guidance Area
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Basics of Youth Counseling
This course helps students acquire professional knowledge necessary for youth counseling and apply it to individual counseling, psychological testing, and group counseling based on an understanding of adolescent development.
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Adolescent Psychology and Counseling
This course helps students understand developmental characteristics of adolescence, the attitude and ethics of counselors, and learn counseling methods and techniques for various adolescent issues.
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Youth Welfare Theory
This course helps students understand the institutional concepts and practice methods of youth welfare, and learn major theories and developmental directions of youth welfare.
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Youth Problems and Protection
This course helps students understand the causes, types, and current conditions of youth problems, and learn youth protection policies and ways to improve youth problems.
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Youth Guidance Methodology
This course helps students learn the theories and practice of youth guidance methods and understand various guidance methods, including individual guidance and group guidance.
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Youth Development System Theory
This course helps students understand the direction and institutional mechanisms of youth development policies in Korea and cultivate an attitude that supports the proper growth of youth.
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Youth Program Development and Evaluation
This course helps students understand theories of youth program development and evaluation, and develop the ability to create and evaluate effective programs.
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Counseling Practice and Therapy Area
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Rational Thinking and Emotional Regulation
This course helps students learn how to regulate emotions by controlling maladaptive thoughts, and supports stress management and school adjustment through group psychoeducation experiences.
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Basics of Group Counseling
This course helps students learn the concept, basic principles, process, and techniques of group counseling and experience the actual group counseling process.
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Group Counseling
This course helps students learn theoretical approaches and operating methods of group counseling, understand group dynamics, and cultivate helping abilities as group leaders.
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Child Counseling and Therapy
This course helps students learn counseling and therapy theories according to children’s characteristics, and study case conceptualization and counseling plan writing based on actual cases.
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Art Therapy
This course helps students understand the theories of art therapy and various media, and learn therapeutic methods that help clients with psychological difficulties through creative expression.
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Counseling Practice
This course helps students apply counseling theories and techniques to actual counseling field settings, experience various counseling practices, and cultivate field practice abilities.
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Family Counseling
This course helps students learn theories and techniques of family counseling and therapy, understand family systems based on actual cases, and cultivate family counseling competencies.
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Diversity, Career, and School Field Area
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Multicultural Counseling
This course helps students understand various cultural backgrounds, including race, gender, religion, and social class, and develop the ability to conduct balanced counseling from a multicultural perspective.
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Counseling for Children with Special Needs
This course helps students understand the causes and characteristics of various children with special needs, and learn guidance methods necessary in diagnosis, assessment, counseling, and educational settings.
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Theory and Practice of Career Counseling
This course helps students understand the concepts and theories of career counseling, and develop the ability to conduct career counseling based on the administration and interpretation of career assessment tools.
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Vocational Counseling
This course helps students learn the basics of vocational counseling that supports clients’ occupational choices and career decisions, and develop written and practical skills required for the vocational counselor certification process.
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School Field Practice, Counseling
This course enables students to perform counseling-related practical duties in school settings as professional school counselors, and experience teaching ethics, school culture, classroom management, and school counseling.