Counseling (COUN)
COUN 5123 School Counseling Orientation & Ethical
Practice This course introduces studies that provide an overview of historical, contemporary, clinical, and training issues in the practice of school counseling. The course also provides information related to the following aspects of school counseling practice: (a) professional roles and responsibilities; (b) professional organizations; (c) state and national credentialing; and (d) counselor advocacy and self-care. Lastly, the the student will be provided with an in-depth understanding of the current version of the American Counseling Association Code of Ethics and state-level school counselor certification and corresponding regulations. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5133 Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Orientation & Ethical Practice This course introduces studies that provide an overview of historical, contemporary, clinical, and training issues in the practice of clinical mental health counseling. The course also provides information related to the following aspects of clinical mental health counseling practice:(a) professional roles and responsibilities; (b) professional organizations; (c) state and national credentialing; and (d) counselor advocacy and self-care. Lastly, the student will be provided with an in-depth understanding of the current version of the American Counseling Association Code of Ethics and state professional counselor licensing act and regulations. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5243 Human Growth & Development in
Counseling This course introduces studies that provide an understanding of the nature and needs of persons at all developmental levels and in diverse cultural contexts. This course also provides a systematic study of human development emphasizing physical, personality, cognitive, moral, and psychosocial developmental theories and issues, with an emphasis on facilitating optimal development and wellness over the lifespan.
COUN 5283 Assessment in Counseling
This course introduces studies that provide an understanding of individual and group approaches to assessment and evaluation in a culturally diverse society. This course also provides an understanding of assessment in counseling through (1) an overview of basic counseling assessment concepts, (2) an understanding of test construction, (3) familiarity with instruments, and (4) an overview of test interpretation. It also provides a discussion of typical problems and approaches to individual and group testing in the area of intelligence, aptitude, achievement, interest, and personality measurement. History, rationale, and ethical issues in the use of counseling assessment instruments are included.
COUN 5323 Career Counseling and Development
This course introduces studies that provide an understanding of career development and related life factors. This course also provides an overview of career development theories, program planning, educational planning, assessment techniques, and applied career counseling processes, including those applicable to specific populations in a global economy.
COUN 5333 Individual Intelligence Testing in
Counseling This course provides an overview of the use of a variety of standardized intelligence tests with an the emphasis of history, validity, reliability, administration, and interpretation issues surrounding the use of this branch of counseling assessment. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5343 Personality Assessment in Counseling
This course provides an overview of the use of a variety of standardized personality tests, with an emphasis on history, validity, reliability, administration, and interpretation issues surrounding this branch of counseling assessment. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5353 Expressive Arts Therapy
This course will give students foundational and experiential knowledge and information to use expressive arts with future clients-in, particularly those who are survivors of trauma, diagnosed with PTSD, or individuals who are nonverbal or incapable of verbalizing trauma. Through experiential activities, students will have the opportunity to engage in a variety of expressive arts in order to gain some understanding of what future clients might experience through this modality. In addition, students will be required to research their respective state codes to determine the ethics of using expressive arts in future positions with agencies or private practices.
COUN 5373 School Counseling Psychopathology &
Treatment Planning This course offers a study of the principles of understanding dysfunction in human behavior and social disorganization. Included in this course is an exploration of etiology, classification, differential diagnosis, and prognosis issues surrounding the full spectrum of mental health disorders in a culturally diverse society. Also, included is an overview of treatment planning strategies. The course curriculum is designed to aid School Counselors in understanding student diagnoses and the ways in which a diagnosis can potentially impact a student’s social/emotional development and academic success.
COUN 5423 Counseling Pre-Practicum
This course provides an overview of the basic counseling skills used by the professional counselor in working with children, adolescents, and adults. Included is a laboratory experience in which the student is trained in the application of counseling relationship-building and working-stage skills via role-play activities with others students in the class.
COUN 5443 Theories of Counseling
This course examines contemporary and alternative counseling theories that provide the student with models to conceptualize client presentation and that help they student appropriate counseling interventions. Students will be exposed to models of counseling that are consistent with current professional research and practice in the field so they may begin to develop a personal model of counseling.
COUN 5483 Social & Cultural Diversity Issues
Counseling This course includes studies that provide an understanding of the cultural context of relationships, issues, and trends in a culturally diverse society. Also included is an overview of social and cultural theories, strategies, and roles to be applied by the pluralistic counselor to establish an environment for optimal client wellness and successful counseling outcomes.
COUN 5503 Crisis and Disaster Counseling
This course provides an overview of crisis and disaster intervention strategies for the professional counselor. Issues addressed include, but are not limited to, crisis of suicide, homicide, grave disability due to a mental illness, domestic violence, school violence, posttraumatic stress disorder, and vicarious trauma. The counselor’s role in natural and human disaster intervention is also addressed.
COUN 5523 Group Counseling
This course includes studies that provide both the oretical and experiential understandings of group purpose, development, dynamics, theories, methods, skills, and other group approaches in culturally diverse society. Issues of group counseling leadership, stages, skills, methods, and ethics issues are also examined.
COUN 5530 Group Counseling Laboratory
Experience This laboratory experience provides direct experiences in which students participate as group members in a small group activity, approved by the program, for a minimum of 10 clock hours over the course of one academic term.
COUN 5543 School Counseling Practicum
This course involves intensely supervised practice of school counseling-related activities and services at an approved school site. During the practicum experience candidates provide a variety of direct and indirect counseling services to students at the school site while under supervision of a site supervisor. Candidates are required to complete a minimum of 100 hours of counseling-related services, 40 of which must include direct contact with students. A final grade of b or higher is required to pass this course.
COUN 5563 Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling
This course provides the student with an overview of the knowledge, skills, and practices necessary to address a wide variety of issues in the context of relationships and families. Historical, theoretical, and developmental issues in systems counseling are addressed, in addition to introducing the student to the basic skills of marriage, couple, and family counseling. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5573 Psychopharmacology in Counseling
This course provides an overview of commonly presc ribed psychotropic medications in the field of professional counseling. The course assists the counselor in understanding his or her role in working with medical professionals in the concurrent treatment of mental health issues using an interdisciplinary approach. Also addressed in this course are medications and drugs of abuse included in the substance-related disorders section of the most current version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. (Prerequisite: permission required)
COUN 5583 Developmental School Counseling
This course is the foundation for students planning to enter the school counseling profession. Special attention is given to the foundations and contextual dimensions of school counseling as well as the knowledge and skill requirements such as organization, planning, implementation, management and evaluation of a comprehensive school counseling program.
COUN 5593 Substance Use and Process Addiction
Counseling This course provides an overview of assessment and treatment methods available for clients and their family members struggling with the full spectrum of substance use disorders or process addiction issues (e.g. gambling, sex, Internet, pornography addiction, etc.) Instructor consent required.
COUN 5613 Counseling Children and Adolescents
This course provides instruction in the theories and techniques used in counseling children and adolescents. Also provided is specific instruction on conceptualization of childhood and adolescent problems with emphasis on age- and developmentally-appropriate interventions. Focus is directed toward wellness-based developmental, as well as remedial counseling approaches, with accompanying skill development.
COUN 5623 Human Sexuality in Counseling
This course focuses on sexual development and educational issues as applied to the field of professional counseling. Major emphases are placed upon becoming comfortable with one’s own sexuality, assisting parents with providing sexual education to their children, providing education with regard to sexual matters, and diagnosing and treating sexual dysfunction. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5633 Grief Counseling
This course addresses the mental health, social, and cultural manifestations of grief arising from bereavement, along with counseling interventions. Course content also covers characteristics of grief throughout the life cycle, as well as, age-appropriate interventions. Course readings, class discussions, exercises, and assignments are designed to examine issues related to loss events, grief, and bereavement from academic, personal, and professional points of view.
COUN 5643 Religious & Spiritual Issues in Counsel
This course provides an introduction to studies related to the matters of religion and spirituality and their overlap with the delivery of professional counseling services. Also provided is an opportunity for students to examine their religious and spiritual belief systems and develop sensitivity to and respect for the religious and spiritual themes and goals in the counseling process as befits each client’s expressed preferences. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5653 LGBT Issues in Counseling
This course examines current issues related to counseling gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered clients. Issues addressed include affirmative counseling; identity development; homophobia and heterosexism; family and relationship issues; youth, aging and the coming-out process; spirituality issues; HIV/AIDS, addiction, suicide, conversion therapies, and other issues; as well as ethical and professional issues in working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered clients. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5663 Introduction to Play Therapy
This course is designed to assist counselors who work with children to understand the fundamental tenets of play therapy. Students will develop an effective philosophy of and approach to play therapy and an increased understanding of children’s worldviews. In addition, play media will be utilized to enhance the counseling relationship and to promote self-understanding, personal growth, and development in children. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5743 CMCH Counseling Practicum
This course involves intensely supervised practice of professional clinical mental health counseling at a field site in the community. For this practicum experience, students provide a variety of individual, group, marriage, couple, and family counseling direct service activities to field-based clients. Students will use a broad range of mental health service delivery modalities within the continuum of mental health care networks. Students will be utilizing the diagnostic process, including differential diagnosis and the use of current diagnostic classification systems, including the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Students are required to complete a minimum of 100 hours of counseling-related services, 40 of which must include direct client contact activities.
COUN 5773 CMCH Psychopathology & Treatment
Planning This course offers a study of the principles of understanding dysfunction in human behavior and social disorganization. Included in this course are the principles, models, and documentation formats of biopsychosocial case conceptualization, intake interview and treatment planning, diagnostic process, including differential diagnosis and the use of current diagnostic classification systems, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) Also included is an overview of record keeping and treatment planning strategies based on diagnostic finding required within today’s mental health marketplace.
COUN 5863 Research in Counseling
This course provides an understanding of research methods, statistical analysis, and needs assessment strategies in the field of professional counseling. This course is designed to assist the student in becoming a critical consumer of research methods such as qualitative, quantitative, single-case designs, action research, and outcome-based research studies. Students are also introduced to ethical and culturally relevant strategies for interpreting and reporting the results of research studies accurately and effectively.
COUN 5873 Counseling Consultation,
Admininstration, & Program Evaluation This course provides an introduction to studies related to the provision of counselor consultation services, counseling administration, and program evaluation procedures. The course places special emphasis on effective application of current theories and practices related to these three critical roles to today’s professional counselor. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5913 Clinical Supervision in Counseling
This course serves as a didactic and experiential course for graduate and post-graduate students who wish to assume the role of clinical supervisor to pre- and post- graduate counselors-in-training. Goals include the assimilation and application of major theoretical/conceptual models and approaches to clinical supervision in a variety of settings. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5923 Counseling Internship I
This course requires the completion of a supervised internship experience in clinical mental health counseling, comprising of 300 clock hours of counseling-related experience, 120 of which must involve direct client contact. This course is intended to reflect the comprehensive work experience of a clinical mental health counselor at a field placement site. The student must be supervised on an individual and weekly basis by a university-approved site supervisor and must also attend weekly group supervision under the tutelage of a qualified university supervisor. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5933 Counseling Internship II
This course requires the completion of a supervised internship experience in clinical mental health counseling, comprising of 300 clock hours of counseling-related experience, 120 of which must involve direct client contact. This course is intended to reflect the comprehensive work experience of a clinical mental health counselor at a field placement site. The student must be supervised on an individual and weekly basis by a university-approved site supervisor and must also attend weekly group supervision under the tutelage of a qualified university supervisor. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5960 Directed Readings in Counseling
Individualized literature study in the field of professional counseling, under the direction of a graduate-level counseling professor. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5970 Special Studies in Counseling
Individualized or group projects focused on the field of professional counseling and selected in consultation with a graduate-level counseling professor. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5980 Counseling Seminar
Small group study of a topic related to the field of professional counseling and announced by the department. Instructor consent required.
COUN 5990 Applied Counseling Research
Independent research specifically focused on the field of professional counseling and designed in consultation with a graduate-level counseling professor. Instructor consent required.