Faculty: INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE PGROGRAMS This major focuses on providing spiritual support and guidance for personal growth and emotional healing. Students explore spiritual development, counseling theories, therapeutic techniques, ethics, and multicultural spirituality. The program emphasizes empathy, active listening, and applying spiritual principles to address emotional and spiritual challenges. Graduates are prepared for careers in spiritual counseling, pastoral care, and life coaching. **Learning Objectives:** - Understand spiritual counseling and guidance fundamentals. - Develop skills in counseling theories, therapeutic techniques, and spiritual development. - Learn techniques for active listening, empathy, and building therapeutic relationships. - Explore ethics in counseling and multicultural spirituality. - Apply spiritual principles to address emotional and spiritual challenges. - Analyze challenges and opportunities in spiritual counseling. - Develop teamwork and problem-solving skills for counseling projects. **Major Outline:** 1. **Introduction to Spiritual Counseling and Guidance** - Overview of spiritual counseling, spiritual development, and counseling theories. 2. **Counseling Theories** - Principles of major counseling theories and their application to spiritual guidance. 3. **Therapeutic Techniques** - Fundamentals of therapeutic techniques and their integration into spiritual counseling. 4. **Spiritual Development** - Principles of spiritual development and techniques for fostering spiritual well-being. 5. **Ethics in Counseling** - Understanding ethical considerations and ensuring ethical conduct in counseling. 6. **Multicultural Spirituality** - Exploration of diverse spiritual traditions and techniques for culturally sensitive counseling. 7. **Active Listening and Empathy** - Principles of active listening and empathy in building therapeutic relationships. 8. **Addressing Emotional and Spiritual Challenges** - Analysis of common challenges and techniques for applying spiritual principles. 9. **Pastoral Care and Life Coaching** - Fundamentals of pastoral care and life coaching techniques. 10. **Capstone Project in Spiritual Counseling and Guidance** - Real-world project to apply learned skills in spiritual counseling or spiritual development. **Assessment Methods:** - Counseling theory applications, therapeutic technique integrations, spiritual development plans, ethical consideration papers, multicultural spirituality analyses, active listening exercises, emotional challenge analyses, pastoral care projects, research papers, group projects, and internships. **Recommended Textbooks:** - "Spiritual Direction" by Susan S. Phillips. - "Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy" by Gerald Corey. - "Mindfulness" by Mark Williams and Danny Penman. - "Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling" by Pope K. and Vasquez M. - "Multicultural Counseling Competencies" by Derald Wing Sue and David Sue. **Prerequisites:** Basic knowledge of counseling, psychology, and spiritual practices. Suitable for students interested in spiritual counseling, pastoral care, and life coaching. **Major Duration:** Typically 4 years for a bachelor's degree, including coursework, projects, and internships. **Certification:** Graduates may receive a degree in Spiritual Counseling and Guidance and pursue certifications such as Certified Spiritual Counselor (CSC) or Certified Life Coach (CLC). **Target Audience:** Aspiring spiritual counselors, pastoral care providers, life coaches, and professionals seeking to specialize in spiritual counseling and guidance. This major equips students with the skills needed to excel in spiritual counseling and guidance, supporting personal growth, emotional healing, and spiritual well-being.