| Coun 602 | The Profession of Counseling | This course helps the student begin establishing professional identity as a counselor. Areas explored include professional roles, settings, functions, goals and objectives, organizations, history, ethics, and credentialing. Comparisons will be made between counseling in textbooks and in the "real world." |
| Coun 604 | Foundations of School Counseling | c |
| Coun 604/1 | Contemporary Issues in School Counseling | c |
| Coun 605 | Career Development | Students learn how career development theories, occupational and educational information, vocational tests, sociological and economic factors, and family dynamics all relate in helping their clients to make career and life style career decisions. Students also spend time practicing skills directly related to career counseling. Prerequisites: COUN 602 and 636 |
| Coun 606 | Human Development: Lifespan | This course acquaints the student with the interplay of psychodynamics, behavioral, sociocultural, cognitive, and interpersonal theories of development. These factors are examined as they combine to explain personality and cognitive functioning across the lifespan. The student will learn to relate development theory and research to professional practice in educational and clinical settings. |
| Coun 606/1 | Human Development: Lifespan | This course acquaints the student with the interplay of psychodynamics, behavioral, sociocultural, cognitive, and interpersonal theories of development. These factors are examined as they combine to explain personality and cognitive functioning across the lifespan. The student will learn to relate development theory and research to professional practice in educational and clinical settings. |
| Coun 626 | Assessment in Counseling | This course teaches students how to effectively evaluate the usefulness of tests and inventories and how to integrate testing into the counseling process. Such measurement issues as reliability, validity, and standard error of measurement are covered Students also become familiar with the most frequently used personality, educational, clinical, intelligence and special population instruments, as well as testing ethics. Time is spent practicing test interpretation with other students. Materials fee: $25. |
| Coun 626/1 | Assessment in Counseling | This course teaches students how to effectively evaluate the usefulness of tests and inventories and how to integrate testing into the counseling process. Such measurement issues as reliability, validity, and standard error of measurement are covered Students also become familiar with the most frequently used personality, educational, clinical, intelligence and special population instruments, as well as testing ethics. Time is spent practicing test interpretation with other students. Materials fee: $25. |
| Coun 636 | Principles of Counseling | This course focuses on teaching students the process and theories of counseling. Students also spend time practicing skills directly related to the helping process. |
| Coun 638 | Advanced Counseling Theory | This course emphasizes the integration, by the student, of counseling theory and counseling practice. The aim is an expansion of both knowledge and skill. Counseling theories will be studied in light of their applicability to skill development. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. |
| Coun 638/1 | Advanced Counseling Theory | This course emphasizes the integration, by the student, of counseling theory and counseling practice. The aim is an expansion of both knowledge and skill. Counseling theories will be studied in light of their applicability to skill development. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. |
| Coun 639 | Group Counseling | This course focuses on developing an understanding of the group process and its evolution, including basic group concepts and their applications. Students are involved in the process as they experience and then conceptualize group processes. An integral part of the experience is the student's engagement in self-examination. |
| Coun 640 | Special Topics in Counseling and Intervention I | DR. CERIO APPROVED THIS COURSE FOR 1 CREDIT FOR A STUDENT THAT HAD 2 CREDITS TRANSFERRED FOR COUN 642. |
| Coun 642 | Multicultural Counseling | An exploration of the considerations and issues involved in counseling persons from different cultural, religious, racial-ethnic, and gender/gender oriented groups. There is a focus on heightening an awareness and appreciation of difference. |
| Coun 642/1 | Multicultural Counseling | COUN 642 – Multicultural Counseling
An exploration of the considerations and issues involved in counseling persons from different cultural, religious, racial-ethnic, and gender/gender oriented groups. There is a focus on heightening an awareness and appreciation of difference. |
| Coun 652 | Family Therapy | This seminar is a multi-purpose course designed to supplement student experiences in the clinic practicum and to provide a practical introduction to family therapy. Specifically, students will be trained in concepts and techniques of structural-strategic family therapy through videotaped demonstrations and simulations. Students will also have the opportunity to discuss actual clinic cases as a means of applying family therapy concepts. At the completion of the course, participants should have developed foundation skills for using family therapy interventions. |
| Coun 657 | Counseling Practicum 1 | The student is required to spend a minimum of 100 clock hours at a selected school, agency or college/university, working under supervision with clients/students. During that time, the student is expected to increase his or her competence in the areas of basic interviewing, assessment, and counseling skills. Furthermore, the student will be made more aware of the ethical, legal, and professional issues inherent in the counseling process. The student is provided practical, on-the-job, supervised and evaluated field experiences that provide the foundation for internship experiences. A weekly seminar class accompanies the fieldwork experience, which will focus on discussion of the theory and practice of supervision vis-à-vis the practicum. Prerequisite: COUN 656. |
| Coun 657/1 | Counseling Practicum 1 | The student is required to spend a minimum of 100 clock hours at a selected school, agency or college/university, working under supervision with clients/students. During that time, the student is expected to increase his or her competence in the areas of basic interviewing, assessment, and counseling skills. Furthermore, the student will be made more aware of the ethical, legal, and professional issues inherent in the counseling process. The student is provided practical, on-the-job, supervised and evaluated field experiences that provide the foundation for internship experiences. A weekly seminar class accompanies the fieldwork experience, which will focus on discussion of the theory and practice of supervision vis-à-vis the practicum. Prerequisite: COUN 656. |
| Coun 658 | Counseling Practicum 2 | This is a continuation of COUN 657, with the exception that the student is required to spend a minimum of 200 clock hours at a selected school, agency or college/university, working under supervision with clients/students. Students continue to develop conceptual and professional skills related to their practice at a field site. Again, a weekly seminar class accompanies the fieldwork experience. Prerequisite: COUN 657 |
| Coun 695 | Topics in Counseling | This seminar accompanies the full-time internship, and will examine professional issues encountered in the internship setting, and provide group supervision during the internship experience. Intensive study of theories, research, and practice will be based on applied issues that arise for the professional counselor. Co-requisite: COUN 667, 668, or 669 |
| Psyc 639 | Exceptionality | This course emphasizes the knowledge and skills necessary to plan, organize, lead, and evaluate counseling groups. Attention is given to recent research and current issues related to groups in the helping professions. Students need access to counseling groups at the time of the course. Prerequisites: COUN 637 and permission of the instructor. |
| Psyc 646 | Consultation and Prevention | This course covers the concepts and practice of consultation in educational and human service settings. Emphases are on mental health, behavioral, and collaborative problem-solving models of consultation including child-centered, client-centered, and system-centered techniques. Prevention programs for the school and community are explored along with consultative processes related to their implementation. This course has a practicum component. Prerequisite: COUN 638 or PSYC 638. |
| Psyc 671 | Statistics and Research Design | The course introduces the analysis of research design and basic statistics and gives the student the background necessary to read and judge professional evaluation research as well as the ability to design and implement basic program evaluation. |
