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Each summer, the Community Counseling program offers a variety of summer institutes. Below, you can find examples of such unique course offerings. This page will be updated when course information for the 2009 Summer Institutes becomes available.
HPC 5535 - Expressive Arts w/ Children & Adolescents: This institute is designed to present a comprehensive and developmentally oriented approach for the application of play theories, techniques, and the creative/expressive arts to the process of counseling children and adolescents. The course consists of class discussions, presentations, cooperative and group experiential learning activities, videos, and "hands on" type of activities/projects which students will prepare and present. Students will learn the techniques of play therapy, art, music, movement, creative dramatics, sand-play, bibliotherapy, and puppetry in both the school and agency setting. Dates: July 7-11, 2008. [Download Complete Description/Registration Info.] [Download Course Syllabus] **NOTE: Current and newly admitted students can register for this course normally w/o going through Conferences and Institutes. For your convenience, this institute does not conflict with other second session HPC courses and does not count as an overload for second session.
HPC 5545 - Dreams, Art, & Nature: An exploration of the resonance between the outer landscape of the natural world and the inner landscape of the psyche, integrating expressive arts therapy, ecotherapy and dreamwork. The course will include theoretical background in expressive arts therapy, ecotherapy and dreamwork as well as a variety of experiential group and individual art making activities, using dreams and nature.
Dates: May 12-15, 2008. [Download Complete Description] [Download Course Syllabus]
HPC 6570 - Appalachian Addictions Institute: This annual summer institute is designed to provide graduate students and working professionals with an opportunity for in-depth exploration of cutting-edge, clinical issues and topics within the addictions field. *This year's topics include: overview of addiction recovery in NC, employee assistance programs, relapse prevention, ethics, dual diagnosis, using a gestalt approach with couples facing addiction issues, & supervision. Dates: May 28-31, 2008. [Download Complete Description/Registration Info.]
