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This course will offer an overview of the research methods used in counseling and program evaluation. Students will gain experience with literature databases, research ethics, research methodologies, basic statistics and statistical software such as SPSS, and communicating research findings, and proposing research to an Institutional Review Board.
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This course is designed to meet your specific needs regarding advanced counseling skills. Skill development also provides a space for students on 3 and 4 year tracks to continue to practice skills between their practicum and internship experiences.
COUN 547 Counseling Theories (3 SH)
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This course will introduce students to the various components of sexual health and wellness that impact the practice of counseling. Students will learn about sexual health, wellness, and the important role clinical mental health practitioners have in fostering overall wellness.
COUN 608 Introduction to School Counseling (3 SH)
This course is designed to provide students with an examination of the profession of school counseling. It will include a review of the philosophy, history, and current trends in school counseling and in education, as well as an investigation of the concept of developmental counseling programs for P-12 students. The course is also designed to provide a basic understanding of the school environment, the role and responsibilities of the school counselor within the environment/community, the current ethical and legal issues in school counseling, the national model and standards of school counseling, and the changing nature of student populations. The format will include lectures, class discussions, role play, student presentations, and guest presentations.
EDDA 571 Trauma Restoration and Resilience in Educational Environments (3 SH)
Most children experience traumatic events, and those events can profoundly influence their cognitive, physical, emotional, and social development. School staff may be unaware of the specific traumatic events impacting each child, and school environments may inadvertently exacerbate the impacts of trauma. Traumatic events may cause a child to have academic difficulty, behavior that interferes with learning or violates codes of student conduct, and troubled relationships with peers and school staff. Conversely, trauma-informed, resilience-fostering school environments can mitigate the impact of trauma and enhance the protective factors that provide the foundation for health, academic success, and positive peer and staff interactions. This course will introduce school personnel to the core concepts of adverse experiences, toxic stress, trauma, restoration, self-care, and resilience in the school environment, and provides a research-based, strength-based approach to creating a trauma-informed, resilience-fostering school environment.
EDRJ 601 Facilitating Circle Processes (3 SH)
This course explores the use of circle processes to build and sustain healthy learning environments in schools or other educational settings. Theoretical foundations and core assumptions will be discussed as well as different ways circles can be utilized to build community, resolve conflict, create safe learning spaces, and promote social and emotional competency. Participants, including educators, administrators, school counselors, or other school based personnel, will learn how to design and implement Circles in education related contexts. In addition to learning about the guiding principles of the circle process, participants will have the opportunity to practice facilitating Circles and garnering feedback from the instructor and their colleagues.
COUN 529 School Counseling Practicum (3 SH)
The practicum experience is designed to give beginning students in school counseling the opportunity to put into practice the skills and knowledge they are developing throughout their counseling program. Students will meet weekly to review cases, discuss areas of growth and present theory, intervention and technique questions.
COUN 540 Restorative Group Process (3 SH)
The purpose of this course is twofold: 1) this course will introduce students to the theory and practice of group counseling and 2) will lay the foundation for an understanding of groups as restorative processes that have specific purposes with children and adolescents in the school setting. The course will provide information about and training in establishing, leading, and evaluating counseling groups of various types including restorative circles. Students will explore different theoretical approaches to counseling groups, describe the basic principles of restorative justice in groups, and apply basic principles of restorative group process which include leadership tasks, group developmental stages, and member roles. Consideration will be given to ethical, legal, and professional issues.
COUN 590 Prevention, Intervention, and Resilience in Schools (3 SH)
This course is designed to introduce students to basic crisis prevention and intervention strategies as they apply to children in schools. The course addresses fundamental crisis intervention theory and offers practical applications in various crisis situations. Students will explore various assessment, intervention and crisis treatment issues including trauma debriefing in schools. Students will engage in crisis intervention role-plays and practice applying specific interventions in crisis scenarios. Each student will engage with a school system to evaluate the school system’s emergency management plan using the lens of resilience and restoration.
COUN 691/692 School Counseling Internship I & II (3 SH)
The internship experience is designed to give advanced school counseling students in counseling the opportunity to put into practice the skills and knowledge they have developed throughout their counseling program. Students will meet weekly to review cases, discussing areas of growth and present specific theory, intervention and technique questions. The student will work in a preK-6 setting and in the grades 7-12 setting.