COUN 518 - What’s love got to do with it?

3 Credit(s)

This course offers insight into a topic that many are extremely interested in: the exploration of love. Students will explore the nature of the interpersonal relationship from falling in love, parent-child love and attachment, counselor-client relationship, sex and eroticism, neuroscience and the effect of love on the brain, the creation of meaningful relationships, friendship, love of God and nature, the human-animal bond, and the love of possessions. This course will discuss the heartache of love, including grief and loss, and will identify when interpersonal relationships are not healthy. Self-love will be explored as a foundation for all love and affection. The psychological approach to love and relationships from different perspectives - primarily evolutionary, attachment theory; as well as focus on some ethical issues related to these ares within the counseling profession.