All courses are 3 credit hours unless otherwise specified.
| 5600 Introduction to School Counseling |
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Prerequisite: Completion of program prerequisites or concurrent enrollment and admission
into the counseling master’s degree program.
Introduction to the roles and functions of the school counselor within a developmental
(e.g., ASCA Model) and other school counseling programs. Examines all aspects of professional
functioning including history, organizational structure, ethics, standards, and credentialing
Exposes student to the developmental counseling curriculum, individual planning, responsive
services, consultation theory, needs assessment, and program and system support with
traditional, urban, and special population.
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| 5611 Principles of Clinical Mental Health Counseling |
Prerequisite: Admission to Counseling Graduate Program or permission of the department.
Addresses the roles, functions, settings, and management of clinical mental health
counseling. Introduces relevant models and theories, ethical and legal issues, professional
organizations, preparation standards and credentialing, and management of mental health
services. |
| 5640 Counseling Theories and Ethics |
Prerequisite: COUN 5600 or 5610 or concurrent enrollment. Admission to the master’s
degree program.
Major theories, principles, ethical concerns, and techniques of counseling. Introduction
to Afro-centric and other models and exploration of techniques for children, adolescents,
and special populations. |
Prerequisite: COUN 5600 or 5610 or concurrent enrollment. Admission to the master’s
degree program.
Practical and experiential laboratory designed to build basic counseling and interviewing
skills, including counselor self-awareness. Focus on development of understanding
of the counseling process through readings, lectures, analogue exercises, and video
demonstrations. |
| 5660 Advanced Theories of Lifespan Development and Counseling Applications |
Prerequisites: COUN 5600 or 5610 or concurrent enrollment.
Examines development across the life span and addresses issues that impact counseling
and development such as ethnicity, economics, disabilities, and abuse/neglect. Addresses
all the major developmental theories including family development and basic learning
theory. |
| 5670 Principles and Techniques of Group Counseling |
COUN 5650, 5640. Admission to the master’s degree program.Group methods for identifying,
understanding, and solving common problems. Explores counseling and therapy in a group
setting. |
| 5710 Multicultural Issues in Counseling |
Prerequisite: COUN 5600 or 5610 or concurrent enrollment. Admission into the master’s
degree program.
This course is designed to build expertise in counseling individuals from diverse
cultural backgrounds including but not limited to individuals of African American,
Hispanic, Asian, and American heritage. It includes a study of change, ethnicity,
changing roles of women and sexism, urban and rural societies, changing population
patterns, cultural mores, and differing life patterns. |
| 5720 Lifestyle and Career Development |
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Prerequisite: COUN 5600 or 5610 or concurrent enrollment. Admission to the master’s
degree program.
Theories and principles of vocational choice, relationship between career choice and
life style, sources of occupational and educational information, computerized guidance
services, financial aid, college admissions, approaches to career decision making
processes and career development exploration techniques.
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| 5730 Techniques of Assessment and Diagnosis |
Prerequisites: COUN 5600 or 5610 or concurrent enrollment; COUN 4190 or equivalent
basic statistics course. Admission to the master’s degree program.
Selection, administration, interpretation, and evaluative use of intelligence, aptitude,
personality, interest, and achievement test. Use and/or construction of questionnaires,
sociograms, anecdotal records, and other appraisal devices. Practice of differential
diagnosis and clinical interviewing. Additional course fee. |
| 5735 Personality Appraisal |
Prerequisite: COUN 5640, 573, or 5730. Admission to the master’s degree program.
Techniques and methods for appraising personality characteristics. |
| 5740 Treatment Interventions in Urban Youth and Families |
COUN 5600 or 5610 and COUN 5660. Admission to the master’s degree program. Seminar
on issues (e.g.) gangs, violence, abuse, drugs, poverty, etc.) facing youth and families
in urban inner-city environments. Exposes students to theories of adolescent development,
how development, how development is comprised in such youth, and using research to
guide effective treatment strategies for this population. Introduces family system
theory and application with youth and families. |
| 5746 Counseling Techniques Across the Lifespan |
Addresses theory and evidence-based practice for children, adolescents, adults, and
gerontological populations. Introduces play therapy and expressive media in the playroom
with children as well as age-appropriate group and individual strategies for all ages
and levels of development. |
| 5750 Introduction to Family Systems Counseling |
Prerequisite: COUN 5650, 5640. Admission to the master’s degree program. An introduction
to general systems theory and survey of the major systems of family therapy, emphasizing
theory and treatment strategies. |
| 5755 Treatment Planning and Advanced Counseling Applications |
Covers integration of diagnostic assessment, biopsychosocial model, history, treatment
format and planning, and evaluation of treatment effectiveness. Introduces students
to psychopharmacology, crisis intervention, trauma counseling (for individuals, groups,
organizations, and communities), and emergency preparedness. |
| 5780 Advanced School Counseling Applications |
Focuses on the skills and techniques needed to assist students during school years
and the transition to work/college (e.g., transcript review and college applications).
Addresses social and emotional learning standards, special education law, effective
case management and the development of Individual Educational Plans through multidisciplinary
staffing involving parents, students, and school professionals. Provides experience
with computer programs and other tools used by school counselors as well. Students
will also be required to write a comprehensive ASCA model Counseling Program. |
| 5790 Pre-Practicum Counseling Laboratory |
Prerequisite: COUN 5600 or 5610; 410 or 5660, 5650, 5640, and accepted as candidate
for clinical courses. Completion of all pre-candidacy courses in the program and written
application submitted by appropriate deadline. Clinical laboratory experience with
actual clients and live and videotaped supervision in techniques of counseling/psychotherapy. |
| 5800 Research, Statistics and Program Evaluations |
COUN 2080 or 4190, or equivalent basic statistics course. Admission to the master’s
degree program.
Study of research methods, both qualitative and quantitative computer programs for
data management and testing; application of program evaluation principles; legal and
ethical considerations in research and programs. |
The assessment, etiology, description, understanding, and treatment of addictions.
Addresses prevention, education, dual diagnosis, risk assessment, crisis intervention,
and issues related to diagnosis and treatment in multicultural populations. Evidence-based
individual and group interventions will be studied. |
| 5840 Advanced Psychopathology and Treatment Planning |
Prerequisite: COUN 5600 or 5610, or concurrent enrollment in the same.
The assessment, etiology, description, understanding, and treatment of Psychological
disorders. Included in the study are schizophrenia, affective and anxiety disorders,
substance abuse/dependency, personality disorders, disorders of childhood and adolescence
as well as other disorders in the DSM 5 and issues related to diagnosis and evidence-based
treatment in multicultural populatio |
| 5950 Practicum in Counseling II |
Prerequisite: Completion of COUN 4310, accepted as a candidate for clinical courses
and written application during semester prior to enrollment. Admission to the master’s
degree program.
Supervised field placement in counseling/psychotherapy. Minimum of 100 hours of supervised
experience required in field placement. |
| 5990 Internship in School Counseling (6 credit hours) |
Prerequisite: Completion of all required 5000-level courses, passing the Illinois
Content Examination in School Counseling, and written application submitted by appropriate
deadline. Admission to the master’s degree program OR the Endorsement in School Counseling
Certificate Program.
Supervised field placement in a school setting (K-12). May be taken for three credit
hours indicating 600 hours of experience or six credit hours indicating 600 hours
of experience. May be taken twice for three credit hours or once for six credit hours
to fulfill the required six credit hours of internship. |
| 5991 Internship in Community Counseling (9 credit hours) |
Prerequisite: Completion of all required 5000-level courses and written application
submitted by appropriate deadline. Admission to the master’s degree program.
Supervised field placement in a counseling mental health setting. May be taken for
three credit hours requiring 300 hours of experience, 4.5 credit hours for 450 hours
of experience, or six credit hours requiring 600 hours of experience. May be taken
up to three times to fulfill the required nine credit hours of internship. |
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