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Counseling 500
Principles of Applied Research.
This course provides a grounding in the methodology of social science research as it pertains to the human service field. It addresses the following four content areas: 1.) The nature of social science research; 2.) Critical analysis of social science research, 3.) Simple descriptive and inferential statistics, and 4.) Action research design.
3 semester hours
Counseling 501
Graduate Co-op in Counseling/Human Resources.
This course provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate the scholarly pursuit of inquiry in an applied setting. Specifically, students are required to work (minimum 100 hours) in an approved co-operative work placement and, based upon their experiences and a review of scholarly literature, write a reflection paper that compares and contrasts scholarly depictions of best practices in the field of Counseling/Human Resources with their observations of actual practices in the field.
1-3 semester hours
Counseling 505 & 505H
Helping Relationships.
This course provides a definitive view of counseling including the characteristics of the counselor and the elements of the counseling process. Through experiential exercises and videotaped simulated counseling the student will attain the skills of attending, empathic listening, assessing and focusing on important client concerns, structuring the process, and facilitating change. COUN 505H is geared specifically to the needs of Human Resource professionals.
3 semester hours
Counseling 510
The Counselor as Professional.
This course serves as an orientation to the helping profession addressing issues that impact on the provision of services such as ethics, law, certification, and professional role expectations. Completion of this course must precede internship.
3 semester hours
Counseling 516
Social and Cultural Foundations of Counseling.
This course examines how social and cultural factors impact on the individual and subsequently how the counselor attends to and addresses the different social forces and cultural differences in the counseling venue.
3 semester hours
Counseling 521 & 521H
Group Process, Application and Theory.
The course will focus on the dynamics of leadership and various membership roles. Alternative theoretical models of groups will be studied. An experiential group experience is required. Counseling 505 and 523 are prerequisites. COUN 521H is geared specifically to the needs of Human Resource professionals.
3 semester hours
Counseling 522
Career and Lifestyle Development.
This course provides an introduction to a lifespan approach to career and lifestyle development. Students explore theories, research, and counseling strategies related to career and lifestyle issues. Labor market resources and information, career assessment tools, computer assisted career guidance, life roles, gender and cultural considerations, and placement procedures are reviewed as interrelated factors to the study of career development. Counseling 505 and 523 are prerequisites.
3 semester hours
Counseling 523 & 523H
Counseling Theories.
This course surveys the major theories of counseling including the Psychoanalytic, Behavioral, Humanistic-Existential, Cognitive and Systems approaches. The student will gain an understanding of the role of theory, the philosophical basis of the theories, the divergent methods utilized, and the utility of each perspective. COUN 523H is geared specifically to the needs of Human Resource professionals.
3 semester hours
Counseling 524
Strategies and Techniques of Counseling.
Building on basic listening skills this course focuses on developing strategies and interventions that promote therapeutic movement for the client. Techniques of the various theoretical orientations will be presented and practiced. Simulated role plays and videotaped sessions provide active opportunities to develop the skills. This course has significant out of class expectations. Prerequisites of at least 9 credits include 505 and 523.
3 semester hours
Counseling 525
Appraisal Procedures for Counselors.
The student will become familiar with a variety of standardized assessment instruments, learn how to evaluate them, select several tests that are appropriate for use in an area of professional responsibility related to a real or anticipated counseling situation, and interpret test results in a supervised setting. Prerequisites include 505, 522 and 523.
3 semester hours
Counseling 526
Addictions and Treatment.
This course is designed to provide a practical experience for counselors learning to work with alcohol and other drug abusers and addictions. Covered in the course will be a survey of the various psychoactive drugs and behavioral addictions along with diagnosis and treatment modalities in working with addicts, and those affected by addicts. Prerequisites: 505, 521 and 523 (524 is recommended for the Community concentration).
3 semester hours
Counseling 527
Foundations and Contextual Dimensions of Gerontological Counseling.
A foundation course introducing students to the history and philosophy of gerontological counseling. All services and professional issues are considered through the normative experiences of aging related to the social, psychological, physical, cultural, and spiritual changes occurring during the older adult years. A discussion of common impairments is also included. Foundation topics include settings, roles and functions, ethical and legal issues, professional organizations, and diversity issues. Contextual dimension topics include types of delivery systems, support networks, community care options, social service needs, and assessment strategies for working with older adults.
3 semester hours
Counseling 528
Gerontological Counseling Techniques and Methods.
Studies related to common impairments for older persons like chronic illness, Alzheimer’s disease, substance abuse, depression and suicide, sexual dysfunction/alternatives, and problems with prescription medications are presented in detail. Counseling strategies shown to be effective with older adults, both from a developmental/wellness and impairment perspective, are included within a framework of gender and cultural considerations. Counseling strategies might include life review, family counseling, group work, creative arts therapies, grief and loss counseling, wellness interventions, and psycho-educational and social network interventions. Students are expected to practice via role plays the strategies reviewed in class.
3 semester hours
Counseling 529
Mid-Life Counseling.
This course focuses on the mid-life client who, historically, has been neglected in theory, practice and general concern of professionals in counseling and related fields. Special problems and needs of the mid-life person are explored in the context of the human growth and development process over the total life span. Through class experiences, students will develop counseling procedures appropriate for this age group and their specific issues.
3 semester hours
Counseling 530
Introduction to Family Counseling.
This course examines the history of family counseling, the stages of family development, philosophical basis and major theoretical approaches to family counseling. Ethical issues and guidelines specific to family counseling will be discussed. This course is designed for graduate students in the Community Counseling program to work effectively with families in a variety of community mental health settings. It centers on experiential learning within the context of a practitioner-oriented model. Prerequisite: COUN524.
3 semester hours
Counseling 531
Computer Applications in Counseling and Human Resources.
Students will be provided hands-on experience with computer programs useful to counselors and human resource developers in a variety of work and study environments. Software samples relevant to a variety of counseling settings will be studied and evaluated.
2 semester hours
Counseling 560
Human Development: A Lifespan Approach.
This course provides a survey of major theories and issues in the field of human development. Topics include the nature of human development; research methods in the field of human development; biological bases for human development; the social, emotional and cognitive changes that occur across the lifespan; and how human development affects, and is affected by, family life, peer relationships, schooling, gender, values, and culture.
3 semester hours
Counseling 566
Personality and Psychopathology.
This course surveys major approaches to human personality – psychoanalytic, trait, cognitive, behavioral, existential, and humanistic – and the ways in which these approaches are related to understanding the etiology, as well as the assessment and treatment, of various forms of psychopathology.
3 semester hours
Counseling 572, 573, & 574
Practicum.
The student will participate in an exploratory field experience in selected community, collegiate, or corporate settings. Departmental permission is required. Specific coursework may also be required depending upon concentration or setting.
1 - 3 semester hours
Counseling 575, 576, & 577
Internship.
The student will participate in an intensive supervised field experience in selected clinical, collegiate, or corporate settings. For the Community Counseling concentration, prerequisites include departmental permission and the completion of 24 credits including 505, 510, 516, 521, 523, 524, & 560. For the College Student Personnel and Human Resource Development Concentrations, prerequisites include departmental permission and the completion of 24 credits including 505 or 505H, 521 or 521H, and 523 or 523H.
1 - 6 semester hours
Counseling 580D
Special Problems of Counseling.
Courses designed to allow students the opportunity to select topics for study which are both relevant to the counseling field and important to the students’ professional development.
1 - 6 semester hours
Counseling 590
Master's Project.
A course designed to assist the student in development of a scholarly masters project, which is the final product required for completion of the Master's Degree in Counseling.
1 semester hour
Counseling 622
Group Work Processes and Skills.
A laboratory and seminar course in which students will become actively involved in working with small groups. Emphasis in the supervised group and seminar sessions will be on the leader's role as a facilitator of individual growth within the group setting. Prerequisite: Counseling 505, 523, & 524 or departmental permission.
3 semester hours
Counseling 623
Counseling and Consultation Skills.
This course explores the role and implications of the consultative process in various settings: with co-workers, with individuals and groups, with organizations and institutions. Participants will have an opportunity to increase skills in the consultative process; to exchange experiences, problems and concepts in practice on consultation; and to increase the number of alternatives one may use in the consultative process. By experiencing and learning from an actual consulting assignment, each participant will have an opportunity to be more aware of self and increase the congruence between personal and professional life.
3 semester hours
Counseling 624
Group Strategies and Techniques for Developing Human Potential.
Advanced treatment of the application of human relations skills and strategies in a workshop setting. Each participant will contract to develop specific skills in a minimum of one approach up to a maximum of six approaches from such areas as reality therapy, transactional analysis, psychodrama, gestalt, bio-energetics, Otto's human potential or other approaches.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
1 - 6 semester hours
Counseling 627
Life Work Plan.
Upon student demand
This course will provide opportunities to examine and share various career planning modules that can be used in a variety of settings. Participants will have the opportunity to experience one model in particular, Life Work Planning. The Life Work Planning experience is divided into two sections; Phase 1 encourages greater client self-awareness through various exercises and group interaction; Phase 11 provided clients with a variety of proven decision and planning tools. With these tools, clients can clarify their goals, decisions and plans; test their present direction; seek new directions; look for alternatives; and move toward action and greater control. Life Work Planning links clients' present realities with personal growth. Throughout the experience, they work alone, or in a sub-group of four or five people. The exercises and tools can be used again throughout their lives to focus attention on their position in a world of change.
3 semester hours
Counseling 630
Clinical Skills for Mental Health Counselors.
The focus of this course is the skills necessary to work in a psychotherapeutic venue including treatment planning, report writing and diagnosis. The course covers description and diagnosis of the mental disorders as prescribed by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Prerequisites include 505, 523, 510, 524, and 566. Ideally this course should be taken concurrently with the first semester of internship.
3 Semester hours
Counseling 650
Organization and Administration of Mental Health Systems.
This course reviews the organization of mental health systems within the context of human services agencies and the processes utilized in administering them. There is an emphasis on systems development and management and a view to programs, human resources management, budgeting and fiscal control, social advocacy, community networking and contracts management. Management issues pertaining to federal and state requirements will also be covered. Prerequisites include 505, 510, 521, and 523.
3 Semester hours
Counseling 680D
Advanced Seminar in Counseling.
Courses designed to allow advanced students the opportunity to select topics for study which are both relevant to the counseling field and important to the students’ professional development.
1 - 6 semester hours
Counseling 690
Advanced Research Project.
A course designed to assist the student in development of a scholarly masters project, which is the final product required for completion of the Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study (CAGS) in Counseling.
1-6 semester hours
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