2024-2025 Course List

Overview of major theories of marriage counseling; skill and strategies for effective marital counseling and case analysis.

Fundamentals of treatment plan development in counseling, with particular focus on the integration of personality assessment, intake interviewing and diagnostic classification data.

This course provides an introduction to the developmental, socio-cultural, and psychological issues unique to women and explores the ways in which such issues affect women's mental health. The course includes an introduction to the basic helping skills necessary to effectively respond to women's developmental and mental health needs.

This course will provide students with an awareness of best practices and current issues in the assessment of intellectual functioning. Students will receive training in the administration, interpretation, and responsible use of selected intellectual assessment measures.

The course provides an overview of identity building and professional skills related to advocacy, leadership, and school counselor supervision. The course will assess styles, provide models for consideration, and explore how to align these practices with positive student outcomes.

Major theories of group development are presented along with analysis of group notes, group techniques, and groups for special populations. An experiential component is included for experience in group processes.

Developmental needs and characteristics of children and adolescents. School guidance programs and interventions that respond to these needs.

This course will prepare students to effectively understand and utilize the results of research and will provide an understanding of the processes involved in the conceptualization, design, implementation, and reporting of research, including program evaluation research.

Skills and knowledge base of critical components of workshop design.

Individual study focusing upon a curricular or instructional topic under the direction of graduate faculty.

Supervised integrative practicum experiences. Admission by prior application.

Prerequisites:

CSP 618 Introduction to Mental Health Counseling. CSP 645 Counseling Procedures and Skills I, CSP 665 Counseling Theories, CSP 666, Counseling Procedures and Skills II, CSP 673 Group Counseling

Supervised integrative practicum experiences. Admission by prior application.

Supervised integrative internship experiences. Admission by prior application.

Supervised integrative internship experiences. Admission by prior application.

Supervised integrative practicum experiences. Admission by prior application.

Supervised integrative practicum experiences. Admission by prior application.

Supervised integrative experiences. Admission by prior application. Pre-requisities: permission from instructor.

Supervised practicum experiences. Admission by prior application. Pre-requisite: permission from instructor.

Supervised integrative experience. Admission by application only.

Supervised integrative internship experience. Admission by prior application.

Supervised practical integrative experiencse. Admission by prior application.

The course provides an introduction to the use and applications of hardware and software in the fields of counseling and student affairs. The course is based on the technology standards that are identified by the Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors (ACES) and the literature on the application of technology to the fields of counseling and student affairs.

A didactic and experiential course that meets guidelines for approved supervisor status for counselors and family therapists, with topics that include the history and philosophy of supervision, social and cultural contexts, supervision models and dynamics, approaches for individual and group supervision, technology in supervision, and legal and ethical guidelines in supervision.

The purpose of the course is to allow students the opportunity to explore the fundamental principles of addictions counseling as they relate to working with adolescents. These fundamentals will include theories, assessment, and biological aspects of addiction.