This course is a survey of theoretical and applied information for counselors working in community settings. Course content include history and philosophy, roles of workers, organizational and delivery systems, program development and consultation, specific populations, interviewing, prevention and intervention strategies and current issues related to agency counseling.

Includes goals and objectives of professional organizations, codes of ethics, legal considerations, standards of preparation, certification, licensing, role identity of counselors and other personnel services specialists, and overview of services.

An orientation to guidance and counseling services; the setting in which they are offered and the needs of special populations. Introduction to history, philosophy, legal and ethical issues of guidance and counseling.

A study of the means by which information is gathered about a student and the most productive methods of interpreting the materials. Types of cumulative records are examined. The uses of tests, reports of interviews, anecdotal records, school grades, and autobiographies are studied.

Includes such areas as vocational choice theory, relationship between career choice and lifestyle, sources of occupational and educational information, approaches to career decision-making processes and career development exploration techniques.

Introduction to the underlying principles, dominant theories and application of techniques of counseling with individuals and selected groups.

This course is designed to provide specialized instruction and knowledge related to the topic of counseling children. This course is a fundamental course for aspiring school counselors and other professionals interested in counseling children. This course offers didactic instruction and discussion of counseling techniques useful in various settings, with an emphasis of working with children in school settings.

This course provides specialized instruction and knowledge related to the topic of spirituality and its relationship to counseling.

The primary goal of this course is to expose clinical mental health and school counseling students to practical behavioral health skills in multiple settings.

Includes theory and types of groups, as well as descriptions of group practice, methods, dynamics, and facilitative skills. This also includes supervised practice.

) Study of the Wechsler Scales including history, standardization, and usage. Supervised practice in administration, scoring, interpretation and report writing.

Counseling the gifted and creative individuals is a three hour graduate level course for mental health professionals in school, community, and private sector settings. This course provides an advanced knowledge and necessary skills required to provide guidance and counseling services for children, adolescence and adults. Additionally, this course reviews different theories in creativity and giftedness to facilitate the therapeutic approach and academic management.

To prepare psychometry students to understand the procedures of psycho-educational test development. The course covers measurement principles; standards of test worthiness such as validity, reliability and cross-cultural fairness; ethical issues in test building; standardization; and theoretical and historical basis for assessment techniques. An over view of psychometric and statistical relevance such as measurement of central tendency, indices of variability, standard error and correlation are explored. Additionally, gender, ethnicity, language, disability and cultural factors relaed to the test development and evaluation are covered.

Presents a broad understanding of the nature and needs of individuals at all developmental levels. Emphasis is placed on biological, cognitive, and socioemotional approaches. Also, included are such areas as human behavior (normal and abnormal), personality theory, and learning theory.

Supervised practical experiences in using counseling techniques.

The student is placed at an agency/institution under the supervision of a university coordinator and an approved onsite practitioner. A minimum of 600 clock hours with 10 hours for small group activities are required for 9 hours of credit. (

Systematic investigation of factors and procedures relevant to research in counseling.

This course is designed to familiarize students, teachers, counselors and other professionals with the reactions of individuals to death and dying. This course also focuses on developing a personal perspective of the grief process associated with death and dying.

Overview of behavioral assessment including critical appraisal for educational practices and counseling interviews.

This course will introduce students to psychodiagnostics using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Emphasis will be placed on consultation and developing a working knowledge of the organizational structure and the professional terminology used in the manual and subsequent treatment plan development including an introduction to psychopharmacology. (

Study of Stanford-Bine and achievement tests including history, standardization and usage, supervised practice in administration, scoring, interpretation and report writing. Recommend COUN 527 be taken before this course.

Includes studies of change, ethnic groups, subcultures, changing roles of women, sexism. urban and rural societies, population patterns, cultural mores, use of leisure time and differing life patterns. Such disciplines as the behavioral sciences, economics and political science are involved.

This course addresses issues related to trauma and crisis encountered by most counselors and educators at some point in their careers. The course also explores some effective crisis and intervention strategies and techniques that can be employed both during and after traumatic events and situations, as well as viable prevention methods.

This course will identify individual and family life cycles, describe healthy and dysfunctional characteristics of families; steps and stages in family therapy; identifying strategies for working with single-parent families, blended families, culturally diverse families; substance-related disorders, domestic violence and child abuse; and legal, ethical and professional issues in family therapy.

The purpose of this course is to develop skill and competency to demonstrate how to craft a scientifically grounded profile of each child's strengths and difficulties, make a formal diagnosis of Autism Spectrum (AS), Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Dyslexia, and use assessment data to guide individualized intervention in clinical and school settings. The majority of the emphasis of the course will be on the practical aspect of the assessment process such as selection, administration, scoring, and interpretation of the different tests for autism and dyslexia.

Strategies and processes in counseling and consultation will be presented. 100 clock hours of experience required and one hour individual supervision per week.

Field experience of 20 hours a week for one term in a school setting under the supervision of a school psychologist.

The student is placed at a school setting under the supervision of a university coordinator and an approved onsite practitioner. A minimum of 300 clock hours are required.

This course provides an overview of models and approaches to counselor supervision and legal and ethical issues of counselor supervision.

The student is placed at a school under the supervision of a university coordinator and an approved onsite practitioner. A minimum of 600 clock hours are required for 6 hours of credit. (

Topic chosen by the specialist student and his or her thesis committee. The course may be repeated two or more times until 6 hours have been accumulated.

An analysis of current topics, ethical issues, consultation, programs, literature and research in professional counseling.