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Biblical Studies: Counseling

• CNS 130 Introduction to Christian Counseling:  A survey of Christian approaches to the field of counseling focusing on paradigms and models, how they compare, and how these strategies can be implemented in ministry.
• CNS 231 Effective Counseling Skills: A beginning examination of Biblical counseling to assist the student in helping others find God’s purpose for their lives and a study of the difference between secular counseling and Biblical counseling.
• CNS 234 Codependency:  Codependency is the fallacy of trying to control interior feelings by controlling people, things and events on the outside.  This class provided the student with an analysis of the skills necessary to recognize and treat codependency.
• CNS 331 Marriage and Family Counseling:  An examination of the foundation of a successful marriage, the basic building block of the family and the church.  Also examined are counseling methods used with married couples undergoing conflicts, child nurturing and disciplining, and cross-cultural ramifications.
• CNS 332 Group Counseling:  A course designed to teach the student how to initiate a small group program in a local church.  The student will also learn principles of group counseling and their practical application in small groups.
• CNS 337 Crisis, Trauma & Grief Counseling:  This course is designed to examine major stress and crisis from birth to death.  Attention is given to programmatic and therapeutic responses to crisis. Attention will also be spent studying the dynamics of counseling situations guiding families and patients through the stages of grief and death.
• CNS 408/PTH 408 Conflict Management: This course is designed to equip the student in understanding the dynamics of stress, assessing the level of stress, integrating principles designed to alleviate stress personal or ministry situations.
• CNS 431 Addictions Counseling:  This course is designed to teach the dynamics involved in addictive behavior.  It includes principles in implementing a twelve-step recovery approach and how to customize this approach for each addictive profile.
• CNS 432 Healing the Inner Man: An introduction to the key elements in inner healing.  There are many experiences that people have which cause hurts, resentments, and bitterness in the heart.  If not ministered to, they can become destructive in our life-spirit, soul, and body.
• CNS 433 Counseling Domestic Violence:  Victims and abusers both need help in domestic violence situations.  The student is trained in the skills necessary to detect, intervene and counsel people involved in domestic violence.
• CNS 434 Women's Issues in Counseling: This course is designed to assist clergy and other Christian counselors to be better equipped to counsel with women, adolescent females, female youth, men, male adolescents, and male youth who are experiencing difficulty in areas related to gender specific issues, relationship differences, and social problems involving males and females. These include, but are not limited to substance abuse, parenting, domestic violence, AIDS/HIV, child abuse, and criminal justice.
• CNS 492 Counseling: Independent Study: Under this designation, students will be able to research and study subject matter not included in regular course offerings. Any proposed independent study will be significantly beyond regular course offerings and will be under the direction of a School of Counseling faculty member.  Amount of course credit hours is variable.