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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of group counseling and psychotherapy. The development of an understanding of group dynamics and group process are stressed. In order to provide the required experiential component to this course, it is offered in conjunction with EDCE 664 Group Facilitation.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of group counseling. Students will gain experience in developing and refining group leadership techniques with emphasis on group process and dynamics. This course will focus on both historical and current literature regarding the theoretic al and experiential understandings of group purpose, developmental stages, dynamics such as roles, norms, and therapeutic factors, leadership orientations and styles, process, counseling theories, group counseling methods, and skills. Students will refine their theory and skills, and they will integrate the theoretical and experiential understandings of group theory and practice.
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2.00 Credits
This course provides experience in developing and refining group leadership techniques with emphasis on group simulations and demonstrations.
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2.00 Credits
Prior to beginning the full Fall semester Pre-practicum, students are introduced to the basic counseling skills of attending. Students are prepared to begin the placement experience, primarily by shadowing and observing clinical practice and receiving supervision at their site. This course serves as prerequisite for 685 Counselling Pre-practicum (B). Summer.
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4.00 Credits
Through this course, students develop skills, techniques, and the process critical to counseling. The historical development of counseling theories will be discussed with an exploration of affective, behavioral, and cognitive theories; essential interviewing and counseling skills that assist the student in creating appropriate professional boundaries therapeutic relationships, establish appropriate counseling goals, design intervention strategies, evaluate client outcome, and successfully terminate the counselor-client relationship. Students will learn and begin to personalize a general framework for understanding and practicing counseling and consultation. EDCE 685 Pre-Practicum requires 100 hours of field placement work during the Fall semester immediately preceding the Spring semester EDCE 686 Practicum. Those 100 hours shall be a combination of experiences including such activities as: orientation, shadowing, co-counseling (if permitted). In general, the Pre-practicum placement is a time to get acclimated to the agency placement, learning the protocols, paperwork requirements, and other needs. Students may begin to accrue supervised hours. With Program Director approval and Site-supervisor permission, some experience may be applied to the direct contact hours criteria-generally done during EDCE 686 Practicum in the Spring semester (or 250 total hours). This course serves as a pre-requisite to Counseling Practicum (EDCE 686). Fall.
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5.00 Credits
This course is designed to serve as the transition between the Pre-practicum phase of the counselor's professional development and preparation for entry level practice by providing for the continued development of counseling skills on site and under direct supervision. Students continue to gain working knowledge of record keeping, resources, and office protocol. They will regularly observe and receive feedback from the field supervisor and begin to carry a full caseload of clients representing the diversity of the community. Students must complete supervised Practicum experiences that total a minimum of 350 clock hours (100 hour prepracticum plus 250 hour practicum). The Practicum includes all of the following: a minimum of 250 hours of direct service with clients, including experience in individual counseling and group work, weekly interaction with an average of one hour per week of individual and/or triadic supervision with an onsite supervisor. Forty hours of class time in the Spring semester consists of group supervision and other further didactic experiences. Also, an evaluation of the student's performance throughout the practicum, including a formal evaluation at the conclusion of the practicum will be required.
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3.00 Credits
This course prepares students for the final Oral Examination. Students work with their primary professors and with their small groups to revise and refine their personal Theories of Counseling. They are given the opportunity to "defend" this personal theory in a format similar to that of the actual final Oral.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Directed Reading requires completion of a form, and Department permission and cannot be registered for via zagweb.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Directed Study requires completion of a form, and Department permission and cannot be registered for via zagweb.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Independent Study requires completion of a form, and Department permission and cannot be registered for via zagweb.
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