2012 Career/Life Planning. Study of career development literature including character styles, personality types, aptitudes and decision strategies using the Holland Model. Enables students to apply information learned to long-range and immediate career/life goals.
G4413 Introduction to Counseling. Prerequisite: senior standing or permission of instructor. Development of the counseling and guidance profession. Various approaches and techniques employed in counseling. Work of the counselor in various settings. Introduction to basic theoretical and philosophical positions in counseling and guidance.
G5213 Group Administered Tests. Prerequisite: admission to Community Counseling program. Survey of standardized tests of intelligence, aptitudes, interests, attitudes, and personality traits; selection, use, and interpretation of such tests. Provision for the interests of counselors and guidance workers rather than classroom teachers. (F)
G5234 Individual Intelligence Testing. Prerequisite: 5213, permission of instructor. Three hours of classroom experience dealing with the rationale, purpose, and ethics involved in individual intelligence testing plus laboratory experience in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of the Stanford-Binet and Wechsler scales with an emphasis on the Wechsler scales.
G5253 Personality Assessment. Prerequisite: 5213 and 5234. Theories of personality testing and of personality. Students will acquire the skills requisite to administer a variety of personality tests used in community agencies ad be able to interpret and write reports on findings.
G5293 Psychopharmacology. Prerequisite: admission to Community Counseling, School Counseling or Counseling Psychology program or permission of instructor. Emphasizes three aspects of psychopharmacology: DSM-IV diagnosis as it relates to treatment with psychotropic medications; general psychodynamics; effects, and side effects (including effects/side effects related to cognition and learning) of the major classifications of psychotropic medications; and counseling considerations relevant to clients taking psychotropic medications. Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics in racially and ethnically diverse populations will also be discussed to the extent possible based on the limited literature in this area. (Su)
G5413 Occupational Information -- Career Development. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Methods of preparing informational files for student use; nature of educational and occupational information, job classification, sources of information, and occupational surveys and trends. Theories of career development; techniques of job and occupational analysis; individual experiences of reporting client career development. (Su)
G5423 Methods and Techniques of Counseling. Prerequisite: graduate standing and permission of instructor. Introduction to stages in the counseling process; interviewing skills; counseling objectives; appropriate strategies. Common theories of counseling and psychotherapy and ethical considerations are considered. (F)
G5433 Theories and Techniques of Group Counseling. Prerequisite: graduate standing and permission of instructor. Introduction to group dynamics with emphasis on counseling and consultation. Surveys theories and group techniques and their applicability. Experience in conducting and participating in a counseling group is included. (Su)
G5443 Developmental Guidance in the Schools. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Cognitive knowledge, procedures, skills and activities needed for the effective functioning of a school guidance and counseling program. Emphasis on age-related activities and factors involved in the planning of a school guidance and counseling program. (Sp)
G5453 Intervention Strategies for School Counselors. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Intervention strategies appropriate for an educational setting and the practical aspects of working with children. Emphasis on individual and group techniques, working with parents, collaboration, and developing effective curriculum to meet the needs of school students. (F)
G5463 Multicultural Counseling. Prerequisite: admission to community counseling or counseling psychology program. Consideration of the effects of cultural, ethnic, and/or language differences between counselor and counselee in the helping process. Sensitization to minority cultural values. Methods for enhancing multicultural communication.
G5473 Counseling Theories. Prerequisite: admission to Community Counseling, School Counseling or Counseling Psychology program or permission of instructor. Focuses on providing a survey of prevalent counseling theories within the overarching categories of psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral and cognitive-behavioral, and contextual and constructivist approaches. In addition, multicultural counseling competencies will be reviewed. Theories presented will be discussed in terms of counseling goals, central concepts and techniques, diversity (e.g. racial and ethnic, gender, and gay, lesbian, bisexual populations) applications, and research support. (Su)
G5483 Behavior Disorders. Prerequisite: admission to community counseling or counseling psychology program. Diagnostically oriented course in abnormal behavior stressing standard nosology exemplified by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM).
G6050 Individual Research. 1 to 4 hours. Prerequisite: admission to doctoral program in educational and counseling psychology. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. A seminar to initiate and conduct research projects on current topics in educational and counseling psychology. Funding sources and dissemination procedures will be presented.
G6063 Counseling Psychology Research. Prerequisite: admission to counseling psychology program, or permission of instructor. Designed to further acquaint students with the use of measurement and statistics in research, to provide students with a basic vocabulary of experimental design, to enable them to design and evaluate research pertinent to counseling and to enable them to review and critique current research in counseling.
G6253 Projective Personality Instruments. Prerequisite: 5213, 5234, 5253; permission of instructor. Theory of projective testing; acquaintance with several major instruments with special emphasis on the Rorschach test.
G6403 Issues and Ethics in Counseling Psychology. Prerequisite: admission to counseling psychology program or permission of instructor. Orientation to counseling psychology. Focus is on professional organizations, identity and issues, with a major emphasis on professional standards, ethical principles and legal considerations.
G6413 Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy. Prerequisite: admission to doctoral program in counseling psychology or permission of instructor. An advanced course covering the formal aspects of counseling theory as well as selective content of the major counseling/therapy and vocational theories. Major focus is on assisting the student to critically compare various theoretical positions and evolve a personally meaningful approach to counseling and therapy.
G6423 Advanced Counseling Procedures. Prerequisite: admission to counseling psychology program or permission of instructor. Review and critique of major methods of psychological assessment. Theoretical basis, rationale and research evidence for various therapeutic techniques will be examined.
G6433 Advanced Group Counseling and Psychotherapy. Prerequisite: admission to counseling psychology program or permission of instructor. Designed to examine in-depth the theoretical, empirical, and applied dimensions of group counseling and psychotherapy, with an emphasis on long-term outpatient groups. (Alt. Sp)
G6443 Advanced Counseling and Therapy: Children. Prerequisite: admission to counseling psychology program, or permission of instructor. Focuses on specialized counseling skills needed for working with children, with particular attention to diagnosis, interventions and working with parents.
G6453 Family Counseling. Prerequisite: admission to Counseling Psychology program, or Community Counseling program. Examination of counseling approaches for helping distressed families with an emphasis on the family as a system. Role play practice in problem assessment and using various techniques and interventions. (Irreg.)
G6463 Marital Therapy. Prerequisite: admission to Counseling program or Community Counseling program or permission of instructor. Examination or functional and dysfunctional marital relationships, etiology of dysfunction, research on marital issues, approaches to marital counseling and therapy, issues of divorce. Role play practice in marital therapy techniques. (Irreg.)
G6470 Counseling Psychology -- Supervision. 1 to 2 hours. Prerequisite: admission to counseling psychology program or permission of instructor. Develops skills and cognitive knowledge in the area of supervision. Various approaches to supervision will be considered. Practice in supervising master's level or paraprofessional counselors will be required.
G6473 Biopsychosocial Bases of Health Psychology. Prerequisite: admission to counseling psychology program or permission of instructor. Designed to provide an integrative framework for examining biological, psychological, and social influences on behavior and health from the applied perspective of counseling psychology. (Alt. F)
G6483 Advanced Career Counseling. Prerequisite: 5410 or equivalent and admission to counseling psychology program. Designed to prepare students in the area of career counseling and acquaint them with current theoretical and empirical literature as a basis for clinical practice.
G6913 Counseling Psychology Practicum. Prerequisite: admission to counseling psychology program. May be repeated; maximum credit 15 hours. Designed to facilitate acquisition and development of clinical skills (diagnostic, conceptual, relationship) through combined didactic instruction, experiential training, and individual and group supervision. (F, Sp)
Updated: April 27, 2007