This course emphasizes the development from birth through adolescence. Students study research methods, procedures, and designs. Preparation of research abstracts in education and related fields are included. Students analyze the roles of schools in the social order from the perspectives of the humanities and the social sciences. This course provides the rationale of basic ethical, legal, and practical professional standards governing practice in counseling, counseling psychology, and school psychology, especially as defined by the American Counseling Association, American Psychological Association, and the National Association of School Psychologists.
Emphasis is placed on practice within agency or organizational settings.
The course provides the opportunity to learn and to apply various systems for group counseling, skills related to group leadership and member participation, goals of selected group systems, multicultural diversity issues affecting group systems, research relevant to group leadership and group systems, and ethical and legal issues related to group counseling. This course addresses current theories and emerging positions in counseling and psychotherapy with special emphasis on psychological change strategies and the techniques commonly used in implementing those strategies. This course is a survey of career development theories and counseling with an emphasis on multicultural diversity issues affecting career counseling, research relevant to career counseling, and ethical and legal issues. Etiology, prognosis, and psychological adjustment for individuals who suffer illnesses, psychiatric disturbances, addictions, and congenital deformities are discussed. This course outlines assessment techniques for measuring intelligence, language, and perceptual-motor development in children, adolescents, and adults.