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Counseling and Student PersonnelCredits
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Strategies for establishing a group. A review of concepts related to group membership, group member roles, and group techniques, therapeutic factors, and leadership roles. An experiential component is included in this course.
Provides the developing helping professional with an introduction to basic helping skills: attending, listening, responding to content and affect, probing, and providing feedback. The course is experiential in nature and includes small group interaction, videotaping, and role playing simulations.
Understanding the impact of chemical dependency on the family. Family counseling skills and relapse prevention strategies will also be included.
This introductory course provides a comprehensive overview of the counseling profession, emphasizing the development of professional identity and orientation. Students will explore ethical standards, legal mandates, and their application in various counseling settings. The course covers the philosophies, strategies, and current trends that shape counseling practice, as well as the roles and responsibilities of counselors. Additionally, students will examine the developmental needs and challenges of clients within a changing society, gaining insights into the nature of the counseling profession.
This course is designed to facilitate a broad understanding of the historical and philosophical foundations that have shaped the student affairs profession. Legal and ethical principles that guide practice, examining how they intersect with functional and institutional contexts and with current issues impacting higher education, will be central to the course.
This course is designed to facilitate an understanding of current models and practices in the administration and finance of student affairs programs in higher education through a social justice framework. Models of planning and management, techniques related to budgeting and staffing, and current issues and trends in student affairs administration and finance are also explored.
Provides prospective college and university administrators with a theoretical and working knowledge of the finance of higher education including national, state, and university processes, challenges, and techniques; budget management practices and techniques of student affairs administrators in higher education; and policy and political issues of student affairs and higher education budgets in the United States.
Focus on helping skills model, professional issues, and skill acquisition of basic listening responses.
This course introduces theories, models, and practices of crisis intervention with attention to trauma, suicide prevention, and disaster response. Students gain knowledge and skills in assessment and intervention while considering ethical, legal, and cultural factors. Emphasis is placed on applied, trauma-informed strategies for effective crisis counseling across the lifespan.
This course is specific to the counseling profession, focusing on both the cultural and sociopolitical forces influencing people in a multicultural society, as well as the microskills necessary for engaging in cross-cultural counselor-client interactions.
This course explores developmentally appropriate counseling strategies for children and adolescents, including play, creative, and expressive interventions. Emphasis is placed on applying theory to practice, collaborating with families and schools, and addressing the social, emotional, and behavioral needs of diverse youth.
- Prerequisites:
- CSP 618 and CSP 645
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This course examines human development from conception through late adulthood, integrating physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and neurobiological perspectives. Topics include developmental theories, cultural and contextual influences, and the neurobiological etiology of addiction across the lifespan, with attention to implications for counseling practice
An overview of professional issues for mental health counselors providing individual, couples, and family counseling, including certification/licensure, professional development, ethical guidelines, multicultural issues, and recent developments in theory, research, and practice.
Major theories of play therapy and play therapy techniques are reviewed and applied to a range of mental health, learning, and developmental needs of children. Readings, lectures, class demonstrations, and role-play experiences are included.
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This course provides an overview of mental disorders and disabilities impacting children and adolescents, with particular attention devoted to early identification and intervention in a school setting.
Students through classroom and online experiences will learn the theoretical bases and therapeutic strategies for individual, group, and family interventions for play therapy theories including Ecosystematic, Developmental, Filial, Gestalt, Experiential, and Family Play Therapy.
Overview of theories of career development, career guidance, career choice, and decision-making. Career counseling interviews and assessment techniques are also emphasized.
- Prerequisites:
- Admission into a program in the CSP department.
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Roles and functions of the professional school counselor in a school setting. Survey of comprehensive school counseling programs.
Nature and use of measurement tools in counseling with particular emphasis on representative standardized tests, norms, and basic research procedures.
This course provides foundation knowledge and skills for conducting intake interviews and utilizing objective and projective personality assessments in counseling practice.
- Prerequisites:
- CSP 645, CSP 665, and CSP 666
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This course is designed to facilitate an understanding of today's college students through various theoretical perspectives including social identity development (i.e., racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, spiritual, disability, and social class) as well as psychological, intellectual, and moral development. Special focus will be paid to recognizing the unique characteristics and issues faced by today's college students and applying theory to practice.
This course focuses on the professional school counselors' role within and use of data-driven practices to make informed, culturally responsive decisions while working in multi-tiered, multi-domain systems of support (MTSS) leading to evidence-based intervention and program accountability.