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missionary, business person, professional counselor, and marriage and family therapist. This course presupposes the validity and
necessity of involvement in a multicultural job or ministry, whether within the United States or in another country. You must have a
minimum of six months cross-cultural exposure in an international setting to enroll in this course. (3)
CNC 6400
Pastoral Care Techniques
This course will introduce you to the foundational techniques and skills of pastoral counseling. You will learn how to listen emphatically,
how to facilitate spiritual life assessment and change, and how to counsel strategically within the client’s process of spiritual, emotional,
and relational growth and healing. Emphasis will be placed upon who the counselor is as well as what the counselor does. (3)
CNC 6410
Crisis Counseling
This course is designed to train you to respond with wise counsel to those who have endured a crisis such as the death of a family
member, divorce, loss of a child, illness, or political trauma. Attention will be given to the emotional, spiritual, relational, and physical
symptoms that may occur in the aftermath of crisis. (3)
CNC 6411
Sexuality Counseling
This course addresses the biological, developmental, relational, emotional, and spiritual issues that are involved in understanding
human intimacy and sexuality. You will learn basic diagnostic and treatment skills and how to use a variety of treatment skills, the Bible,
and the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV
in teaching and counseling sexual issues. (3)
CNC 6412
Addictions Counseling
This course will train you to understand the etiology of addictions and enable you to understand and deliver treatment on both a
professional and lay level. Addictions in the areas of sexuality, pornography, work, thought, and substance abuse will be addressed.
The issues of dependence, control, sin, and responsibility will be studied. (3)
CNC 6441
Counseling Grief and Loss
In this course you will learn to understand and identify the process and progress of how people deal with loss in their lives. You will
also learn how to guide a person through the grief process so that the loss can be placed in its proper perspective and the individual
can readjust and grow. Special attention will be given to anger, depression, anxiety, and social withdrawal, along with loss of hope and
faith. Using specific tools, you will be able to address your own losses, the losses in others, and the losses that can affect communities
and institutions. (3)
CNC 6460
Clinical Pastoral Education
This intensive laboratory experience provides you with pastoral conversations, clinical seminars, self-insights and individual as well as
group supervision. This training enables you to develop effective pastoral care skills with which to minister in an institutional
environment. (3)
Permission of program director required.
CNC 6470
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) Skills and Supervision
This course will focus on developing your knowledge and skills for effective counseling in a missionary care setting. Emphasis will be
on experiential learning utilizing interviewing strategies in a lab with supervision. (3)
CNC 6474
Clinical Applications in Missionary Care
This course is designed to increase your understanding of various ways to use clinical care and knowledge from the mental health
professions in member care. You will consider ethics, professional relationships, influence of untreated pathology on the community,
and various personal, interpersonal, and systemic dynamics. You will explore biblical, spiritual, and psychological underpinnings, as
well as types of clinical resources, referral procedure, and collaboration with clinical service providers. (3)
CNC 6540
Spiritual Transformation and Group Process
This course will introduce you to the various types of groups which should exist in churches and institutions and how those groups can
be used in a strategic effort to help people develop community, heal wounds, grow spiritually, serve others, accomplish goals, and
maintain accountability. You will learn group process, stages of group development, healthy and unhealthy groups, and the power of
groups for task accomplishment and spiritual transformation. (3)
CNC 6541
Missionary Care for Career Transitions
In this course you will explore pivotal moments in the various seasons of missionary service which ensure growth and longevity in a
lifelong commitment to the missionary call. You will study the career span of a missionary and will define critical seasons and decisions.
Special attention will be given to designing models for the missionary care provider which will enable you to minister to lifelong needs
and to enhance career health and satisfaction. (3)
CNC 6571
Single and Family Issues in Missions
This course will show you how to succeed in establishing a home life while serving cross-culturally. You will examine the skills and
resources necessary to build a home life on the field which nurtures the individual, provides a place of relaxation, and enhances positive
support systems. (3)
CNC 6710
Brief and Solution-Focused Counseling
You will examine the philosophical base, strategies, and skills of several models of brief counseling such as problem-solving and
solution- focused counseling. Particular attention will be given to the practical techniques of each model. The class includes an
emphasis on the integration of these models within your theological perspective. This course is particularly useful to time-limited
counselors such as clinical and pastoral counselors, chaplains, crisis counselors, and people involved in missionary member care. (3)
Prerequisite: CNC 6400