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  • COUN 510: Group Coun Skills

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Examines group processes and their application to counseling. This course also offers practical experiences in facilitating and leading different types of groups in counseling, clinical, and educational settings. Students will also participate as a member in a group setting.
    ShareCOUN 510 - Group Coun Skills

  • COUN 512: Diagnosis in Counseling

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Provides students with foundations to assess, differentiate, and diagnose various mental health disorders based on the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This course will also focus on etiology, symptomatology, treatment, and prognosis of various disorders, as well as the associated biological, personal, and social characteristics. Factors such as resiliency, buffers against stress and mental illness, and adaptive functioning will be explored.
    ShareCOUN 512 - Diagnosis in Counseling

  • COUN 520: Human Growth

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Explores human development throughout the lifespan. Topics include physical, cognitive, and psychosocial aspects of human growth, development, and behavior. Emphasis will be placed on practical application of the course content to the counseling profession. Students will develop an understanding of the personal-social nature and needs of individuals at all developmental levels in multicultural contexts.
    ShareCOUN 520 - Human Growth

  • COUN 525: Multicultural Couns

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Focuses students' attention to the presence of personal resistance, biases, prejudices, stereotypes, judgmental thought processes, and racist tendencies in society and how that affects practicing counselors and student affairs professionals. The development of knowledge and understanding regarding characteristics and concerns of diverse populations, the attitudes and behaviors affected by dominant group membership, and the individual and group approaches/interventions appropriate within the multicultural helping settings will be explored.
    ShareCOUN 525 - Multicultural Couns

  • COUN 550: Orientation Sch Coun

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Emphasizes the various roles of the school counselor and introduces strategies to develop consultation and collaboration within PK-12 school settings. Concepts addressing academic, career, and social-emotional development of students are explored. An introduction to the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model is provided with a focus on the history and philosophy of school counseling and an introduction to ethical and legal issues that involve school counselor advocacy, leadership, and systemic change.
    ShareCOUN 550 - Orientation Sch Coun

  • COUN 555: Issues Counseling

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Studies the incorporation of counseling programs into the total school community based on the framework of the ASCA National Model. Contemporary issues are explored as they relate to reducing and eliminating barriers to educational opportunity for every student. Major societal and educational changes impacting students are investigated. Understanding the role of a school counselor as consultant, collaborator, and coordinator are reviewed.
    ShareCOUN 555 - Issues Counseling
  • ShareCOUN 590 - Ed Research

  • COUN 597: Practicum in SC

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Advances the candidates application of theory and development of counseling skills under site and faculty supervision. The candidate will engage in supervised, direct, and indirect service to diverse PK-12 students in an appropriate educational setting. Site and faculty supervisors will provide at least one hour per week of continual feedback and mentoring in individual and group settings. Students will complete 100 hours of this clinical practicum experience.
    ShareCOUN 597 - Practicum in SC

  • COUN 598: Internship in SC

    3.00 - 6.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Extends and deepens the practicum experience and advances the candidates' opportunity to design, implement and evaluate school counseling programs. Candidates will continue to demonstrate their individual and group counseling skills with diverse students within an appropriate educational setting. Further, candidates will use available data to assess both individual performance and programmatic performance. The internship experience requires student to complete 600 clock hours. Students may divide their internship experience over two semesters.
    ShareCOUN 598 - Internship in SC

  • CRJS 320: Topics in Criminal Justice

    3.00 Credits
    Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Introduces in-depth topics relevant to the varied fields of criminal justice and aspects of the criminal justice system not otherwise substantially covered in existing courses, or which are of current topical interest. May be repeated for credit.
    ShareCRJS 320 - Topics in Criminal Justice
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