An overview of current issues in the discipline of counseling psychology, as well as an introduction to the program and the faculty in the division.
Supervised individual counseling experiences in a laboratory setting. Supervision will be directed toward improvement of counseling skills and case management. S/U graded.
An overview of current professional issues in Counselor Education with special focus on understanding and developing a professional identity in the field. Research will be strongly emphasized.
A comparative and critical in-depth analysis of personality and counseling theories including the interrelationship, philosophical foundations and practical applications.
This course provides in-depth study of instructional principles, pedagogy, and evaluation procedures in counseling and counselor education. Instructional methods, techniques, and evaluation models related to counselor education will be discussed.
For the student with prior counseling experience, this course offers opportunity to develop counseling skills and philosophy in depth with clients in an individual counseling situation. S/U graded.
Doctoral candidates receive experience in supervising child psychotherapy training through working with a staff member.
Students gain experience with a faculty member in supervising counseling practice.
Study problems involved in training individuals to engage in the therapeutic process.
Review and analysis of reported research in counselor education with special emphasis on research published during the last ten years in the professional journals.
This course focuses on encouraging ethical, effective, and advanced multicultural competencies. This includes awareness of cultures and increasing skills in all areas when working with diverse populations.
Topics include strengths, limitations, interpretation, and technical aspects of rigorous case study; correlational, descriptive, and experimental research designs; measurement techniques; sampling; replication; theory testing; qualitative methods; meta-analysis; and quasi-experimentation.
Concentrated study, application, synthesis and evaluation of career development and theory, and professional identity for counselors, counselor educators and supervisors. Emphasis on application of leadership and advocacy skills.
An advanced examination of issues and trends in professional school counseling with an emphasis on preparation and supervision of school counselors and leadership in implementation of school counseling programs.
Receive supervised experience in the role of group facilitator, including feedback on group process, leadership and intervention skills and problem areas. S/U graded.
Doctoral candidates receive experience in supervision of family therapist training. Work with regular staff member in supervising family therapy practicum, observe techniques and processes, receive feedback on progress.
Learn conceptual basis for comparing projective with traditional psychometric procedures and begin skills in administration and scoring of Rorschach test.
Students take leadership roles in Campus Connections, a service-learning course where students work with at-risk youth. Students oversee mentoring dyads. Supervision of mentoring, crisis intervention, and relationship building are developed. S/U graded.
2,000 hour pre-doctoral internship at a site meeting APA training standards. Completed in 3-6 consecutive semesters after Ph.D. course work and approval of dissertation proposal (required before internship match day). S/U graded.
Capstone experiences in the areas of teaching, research apprenticeships, consulting, supervision, and counseling in preapproved settings. An approved internship plan must be in place before students engage in internship activities.
This course is an introduction to clinical administrative experiences, including conducting intakes, making treatment recommendations, engaging in campus/community outreach and providing therapeutic services. S/U graded.
This course offers the opportunity to refine assessment and therapeutic skills with children, adolescents and adults, couples or families. S/U graded.
This course offers students the opportunity to refine their assessment skills with clients in various community based organizations. S/U graded.
Required for all doctoral students. Student must earn a maximum of 4 hours of credit in this course in partial fulfillment of requirements for all doctoral degrees, before admission to candidacy. S/U graded.
Required of all doctoral candidates. A student must earn a minimum of 12 hours of credit for the dissertation in partial fulfillment of requirements for all doctoral degrees. S/U graded.