The course addresses counseling implications for assessing and enhancing human development across the lifespan. The content includes: (a) theories of human development; (b) theories of learning and personality development; (c) human behavior, including an understanding of developmental crises, disability, exceptional behavior, addictive behavior, psychopathology, and situational and environmental factors that affect both normal and abnormal behavior; (d) the stages of family development; and (e) strategies for facilitating optimum development over the life span.
- Faculty: Kemmel Palmer