School Counseling

• Counselor Education Core – 9 credits
• 3
  CO 7210 Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Counseling
  This post-graduate course is designed as an intensive experience in advanced training in play therapy counseling skills in the work with children. Classes will be a combination of discussion, video presentation, case presentation, personal reflection, tape reviews and group supervision. Students will have the opportunity to conduct parent interviews, creating treatment plans and provide observations of each child in this learning experience. Prerequisites: CO 7010 and CO 7020.
• 3
  CO 7300 Counseling Supervision
  This course addresses theoretical, ethical, legal, relational and practical issues in counseling supervision. In addition to reviewing the fundamentals of counseling supervision, the course will provide an experientially based opportunity to develop and practice relevant supervision strategies.
• 3
  EP 7050 Qualitative Methodology and Applied Research
  This course addresses qualitative research methodologies with a particular emphasis on constructing grounded theory. Candidates will engage in the process, design, and critique of qualitative inquiry and research. Organizational and community issues will be explored and discovered through the analysis of patterns of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors within interpersonal and intercultural contexts. Descriptive analysis of initiating the inquiry, gathering and picturing the data, recording and analyzing data, and evaluating the study. (Prerequisite: EP 7020, EP 7030, and a course in research design).
• School Counseling Specialization – 12 credits
• 3
  CO 5030 Foundations of School Counseling
  Provides opportunities for students to understand school counselors' roles and responsibilities. Students will understand the development, organization and administration of comprehensive guidance and counseling programs. Also focuses upon decision-making within a legal and ethical context, cultural diversity and contemporary issues facing school counselors. Prerequisite: CO 5010. There is a 20-hour pre-practicum field experience as part of this course.
• 3
  CO 5650 Critical Issues in Schools
  This course focuses on the role of the school counselor in special education and crisis prevention and intervention. Topics include special education processes, roles, laws, ethics, disability categories, the Individual Educational Plan (IEP), cultural factors, school learning, divorce, bullying, child abuse, death, illness, parents with disabilities, moving, school violence and disasters, suicide, substance abuse, homosexuality, adolescent parenthood, parent-adolescent crises, rape and sexual assault and eating disorders. Prerequisite or corequisite: CO 5010.
• 3
  CO 5780 Counseling Youth
  Multicultural counseling skill development to intervene successfully with children and adolescents. The application of brief counseling, play therapy, and small group work with children and adolescents. Designed to provide counselors with the skills needed to effectively consult with teachers, administrators, parents, and others. Prerequisite: CO 5010 or SY 6010, CO 5260, CO 5050, CO 5020 or permission of the instructor.
• 3
  OH 5700 Creating Organizational Health
  The course is designed as an intensive introduction to the theories, methods and tools for building wellness concepts into the strategic planning process of organizations. The class will define the future of wellness in the workplace evolving beyond mechanistic approaches to individual wellness and developing holistic principles leading to organizational health. At the completion of the course students will have an understanding of ways to institute a new health paradigm into organizational design.
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• 3
  EP 7020 Collaborative Leadership
  In this course, students will explore major concepts related to developing partnerships and communities of learners. Course topics include the change process, forms of school and community governance, school culture, the concept of collaboration, and agencies and organizations involved in community programs and initiatives. Special attention is focused on planning and implementing system-wide and building-level networks. Students will develop and evaluate a framework for collaboration and demonstrate systems thinking. Typically the first course completed in the CAGS program.
• Electives – 6 credits

With your advisor, you’ll choose six credits of electives appropriate for your program of study.

• Capstone Experience – 6 credits
• 6
  CO 5850 Seminar and Internship In School Counseling K-12
  Personal, educational and career guidance and counseling experiences performed under supervision of a certified counselor and conducted in a public school setting. In addition to the required field experiences totaling 600 hours, students must attend seminar meetings on campus with fellow student interns and the Plymouth supervisor to exchange viewpoints and feedback. Designed to be the culminating experience in the Counselor Education program. Prerequisite: Completion of all required courses, school counseling and consent of instructor.
• Total for CAGS in Educational Leadership, Counselor Education and School Psychology, School Counseling Concentration – 33 credits