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  • COHS 515: Foundations of Play Therapy

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course provides students with a basic understanding and a foundational knowledge base of the key tenets and concepts of several major theoretical approaches to play therapy. Topics presented include the history and development of play therapy, the techniques, strategies and clinical skills of the major theoretical approaches to play therapy, and the application of play therapy approaches to child, adolescent and family counseling and therapy. The course emphasizes both in-class experiential activities and extensive readings and research.
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  • COHS 518: Professional Orientation and Ethics for the Mental Health Professional

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course focuses on professional and ethical standards of counseling practice. Historical and philosophical influences, along with current trends and emergent issues relevant to mental health counseling are discussed. Professional counselor roles and functions are examined. Reviews professional organizational standards, the credentialing process, and counselor licensure guidelines. Public policy, practice, and advocacy issues related to counseling are explored.
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  • COHS 519: Intercultural Issues in Counseling

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course is designed to provide the counselor in training with an introduction to the theory and techniques of counseling persons from differing cultures. The course will focus primarily on understanding cultural issues related to counseling and community mental health service delivery. To facilitate this objective, a review of the following, as related to cross-cultural populations, will be provided: counseling theory, counseling processes and outcomes, counselor role and attitude, counseling skills and interventions. Orientation to counseling specific cultures will be provided. Current cross-cultural counseling issues and research will be reviewed.
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  • COHS 521: Neuroscience for Counselors

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course focuses on an introduction to neuroscience research and interventions for counselors. Philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of neurocounseling, along with current trends and emergent issues are discussed. The course will review the structures, systems and functions (i.e. neurobiology) of the brain. Counseling theories including psychodynamic, behavioral approaches, humanistic approaches, and constructivist approaches are explored in relation to neuroscience research. Disorders such as anxiety, depression, stress, addictions and substance use are discussed in relation to neurocounseling best practice.
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  • COHS 522: Professional Orientation and Ethics for School Counselors

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    The purpose of the professional orientation course is to provide an overview of the development and current status of the role and function of the counselor in the school setting. Counselors-in-training will acquire the skill required to successfully understand and perform duties of the school counselor through: 1) study of ethical guidelines for school counselors set forth by the American School Counselors Association (ASCA), 2) exposure to the practice of school counselors as counselors, consultants and coordinators in the education setting, 3) review and evaluation of developmentally appropriate K-12 guidance and counseling curriculum, 4) creation of a statement of philosophy and rationale for guidance and counseling programs, 5) participation in experiential activities, 6) observation of school counselors in the field, and 7) reading and discussion of practices in regular and special education, and 8) identification of strategies and programming for students at-risk. The ASCA ethical standards establish the boundaries for ethical and professional functioning as a counselor in the school setting.
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  • COHS 528: Seminar in Marital Therapy

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    The student will acquire a working knowledge of clinical skills in marital relations and marital therapy, which will include marital dynamics, models of marital functioning, dysfunctional relations, and models for intervention. The seminar will be a combination of lecture, discussion, research, review, videotaping, and clinical practice.
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  • COHS 530: Fundamentals of Counseling

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course presents the foundations and techniques of individual and group counseling. Included are operational approaches, tools, and related procedures; the philosophic bases, characteristics, and barriers of helping relationships, as well as psychological principles underlying the counseling process; procedures for studying the individual; the organization of a counseling program; and the evaluation of counselors and counseling.
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  • COHS 531: Brief Counseling

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course is designed to provide a general overview of brief counseling, in particular, solution focused brief counseling. Through discussion, interactive lecture, audio visual presentation, and experiential activities, students will gain an understanding of the theory and skills underlying the successful implementation of a solution focused brief counseling model.
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  • COHS 532: Trauma Counseling

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course introduces the National Child Advocacy Center (NCAC) coordinated, multidisciplinary team approach to child abuse prevention, and clarifies legal, ethical and professional responsibilities pertaining to suspected and reported abuse. Students learn to assess and diagnose Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), apply effective treatment methods, and critically review trauma therapy research. The course covers child, adolescent, adult, couples, and family therapy practices, as well as treatments for traumas associated with crimes, war, medical conditions, accidents, disasters, and terrorism. Students research a selected topic in the core assignment.
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  • COHS 533: DISASTER MENTAL HEALTH COU

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This 3-credit course provides an overview of disaster mental health counseling approaches that are grounded in cultural competency. The course prepares students to engage within a disaster mental health counseling framework when responding to natural, technological, biological, and/or human-made disasters. The course also fosters students' abilities to apply holistic short-term and long-term counseling interventions that address the medical, physical, psychological, social, emotional, cognitive, cultural, spiritual, occupational, and psycho-social well-being of individuals and groups impacted by disaster-based critical incidents. Finally, the course describes the effects of critical incident and cumulative stress on first responders and offers a counseling pedagogy to promote well-being among this special population.
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