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3.00 Credits
An overview of the principles and practices of providing counseling services to K-12 students with special needs, including school procedures specific to addressing the social, emotional, and behavioral areas that interfere with classroom learning for students with special needs. Content areas include: IDEA; Title 5: counseling services for children with disabilities; GATE (Gifted and Talented Education); At-Risk Student; IEPs (Individualized Educational Plan), and Student/Child Study Teams.
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4.00 Credits
This course has as its focus a study of family systems and how they impact and interact with all the systems that involve the child. Basic to this is the study of the student’s own family of origin and its impact on the student. The primary emphasis in working with families will be the use of solution-focused counseling. Each student is required to lead or co-lead a parent education group in a school setting during the last half of the course. Prerequisite: COUN 510A or consent of instructor is required.
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2.00 Credits
Investigation of the nature and rationale of psychological measurement, both individual and group, with emphasis on its utility in community and/or school settings. Attention is given to both limitations and justification of the measurement of human characteristics. Class fee required at time of registration.
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4.00 Credits
A course offering a developmental psychology perspective on the counseling interventions appropriately undertaken with children and adolescents. Course objectives include: (1) providing students with an introduction to basic intervention strategies for counseling children and adolescents; (2) familiarizing students with special topics, e.g., impact of divorce on children, child abuse, effects of domestic violence; and (3) consideration of developmental contexts in working with children and adolescents. Prerequisite: COUN 501 or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
This course offers a foundation for understanding couple and family relationships by providing an overview of historical and contemporary models of theoretical conceptualization, assessment and intervention, including ways to work with families reflecting diversity. Attention is devoted to important legal and ethical considerations unique to working with families and couples; assessment tools, crisis intervention (including domestic violence), and treatment planning. Prerequisites: COUN 510A or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A course designed to clarify the legal and ethical responsibilities of the community counselor. Legal standards related to counseling practice will be surveyed, including issues related to dissolution; child care, custody, and abuse; confidentiality; involuntary hospitalization; mandatory reporting requirements; detection, assessment, and treatment of domestic violence; and other issues related to the relationship between law and counseling.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of how ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, and gender can affect counseling processes. Students will identify their own unique ethnic and cultural worldview and see how it affects their counseling approaches in both community and school counseling settings. Students will also become knowledgeable about various ethnic groups in the United States and how majority culture influences their daily lives and their responses to counseling. The seminar will address cross-cultural aspects of counseling children, youth, and adults.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of the key theories and intervention approaches applicable in couples counseling. Key topics in human sexuality and sex counseling are examined and integrated relative to psychodynamic systems and cognitive/behavioral approaches to relationship counseling. Specific topics such as history of child abuse and spousal/partner abuse will be reviewed to analyze their impact on sexuality, couples counseling assessment, and treatment. Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in COUN 580B.
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1.00 Credits
An overview of the key theories and intervention approaches applicable in couples counseling. Key topics in human sexuality and sex counseling are examined and integrated relative to psychodynamic systems and cognitive/behavioral approaches to relationship counseling. Specific topics such as history of child abuse and spousal/partner abuse will be reviewed to analyze their impact on sexuality, couples counseling assessment, and treatment. Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in COUN 580A.
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1.00 Credits
A survey course designed to provide a broad conceptual base regarding the major dimensions of dependence upon drugs/alcohol. Emphasis is on practical issues from the standpoint of the family and the community. The course explores historical and current modes of treatment, intervention, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. Students are expected to have a basic understanding of psychopathology and family systems prior to enrollment. This course provides specific instruction in alcoholism and other chemical substance dependency, and is designed to meet the requirements issued by the Board of Behavioral Sciences, State of California.
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