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ED 418 · The Family and Social Dynamics
Introduces the basic dimensions and dynamics of the family as a social institution and as a significant context for individual lives. Explores the nature and dimensions of the institution of the family across cultures and history; alternative theoretical approaches to the family; the connections between the family and other social institutions, such as work, education, and government; and the implications of the analysis of family for social policy for the practice of counseling and other educating professions.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every even spring
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Stein; Mackie
ED 419 · Life Course Studies
Examines the popular myths and misunderstandings about aging and the life course by critically surveying existing scholarly knowledge, research, and theory about the life course and examining how the individual’s biographical experience and view of his or her personal past and future are shaped both by societal institutions and by interpersonal expectation.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every fall
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Stein
ED 425 · Minority Youth Development in Urban Contexts
This course provides an exploration of developmental and socio-cultural processes that impact long-term outcomes for minority students. Influential environmental issues are examined that focus on cultural, educational, structural, and socio-political factors. Students acquire an understanding of how these influences (i.e., racial socialization, parental stressors, and residential segregation) can impact development for minority children and how this knowledge can inform intervention strategies.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every even spring
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Swanson
ED 427 · Elementary School Counseling
Focuses on the proactive role of the elementary counselor as an advocate for students using a systems approach. Students learn to consult with teachers, parents, administrators, and community representatives to prepare students to participate effectively in their current and future educational program. Focuses on prevention of academic, behavioral, or adjustment problems and the encouragement of parental involvement. Topics include classroom guidance presentations, child-centered play therapy, parent effectiveness training, small group counseling, transition programs, and special education issues. Lecture, discussion, and field visits are used to help students gain the necessary skills to build a successful elementary school program.
Prerequisites: EDU 450 (simultaneously or with permission of instructor)
Offered: Occasionally
Restrictions: Open to students who are not matriculated in the counseling program only with permission of instructor
Instructor(s): B. Rubenstein
ED 429 · Theories of Human Development
Provides a comprehensive introduction to multidisciplinary approaches to human development within the behavioral and social sciences. Explores theories of human development and the process of individual change over time that occurs in social, cultural, and historical contexts. Examines central theories of transformation and development to gain an understanding of human behavior, the environmental factors that affect both normal and abnormal behavior, and the systems (e.g., school, family, community) that interact to affect an individual’s development.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every fall and summer A
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Stein; French; Swanson; O’Connor; Peterson
EDU 439 · Interpersonal Systems in Counseling and Human Development
Includes study of the multiple and diverse forms of intimate relationship across the life-course, and their role in human development and mental health. Emphasizes the interpersonal systems orientation to counseling in which problems and challenges, as well as their amelioration, are constructed and interpreted as experiences of relationship. Critical concepts from the literatures in family development, friendship and social support, marriage and family counseling, social psychology, and community prevention are used to illustrate the meanings of and opportunities for relatedness in contemporary life for the purpose of learning to construct appropriate and empowering social-systemic counseling interventions for all ages of children and adults who are in relationship to each other.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every odd fall
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Mackie
EDU 450 · Introduction to School Counseling
Introduces the counseling profession with an emphasis on the counselor’s role in educational settings. Examines the responsibilities of the counselor from a historical, theoretical, and practical point of view. Explores the helping relationship, the roles of the school counselor, and the professional practice issues related to providing school counseling services, historically and today. Focuses on the fundamental elements of basic listening and communication skills that serve as the building blocks for more advanced counseling skills.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every fall
Restrictions: Open to students who are not matriculated in the counseling program only with permission of instructor, if space is available
Instructor(s): B. Rubenstein
EDU 453 · Counseling and Facilitating in Small Groups
Explores the dynamics of small groups and their application to the work of counselors and other helping professionals. Content includes human systems, small group dynamics, leadership and membership, group counseling and facilitation, small group techniques and interventions, and the legal and ethical considerations in group work. Coursework includes participation in a small group experience outside of regular class time designed to explore and deepen awareness of self and others in a group context.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every fall, spring, and summer B (may change in future years)
Restrictions: Open to students who are not matriculated in the counseling program only with permission of instructor, if space is available
Instructor(s): G. Rubenstein; Marquis
EDU 454 · Career Counseling and Development
Provides an overview of the career counseling and development field, including career development theories and decision-making models; career development program planning, organization and services; career education practices; career counseling materials, processes, and techniques; and computer-assisted career guidance systems.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every spring and summer A
Restrictions: Open to students who are not matriculated in the counseling program only with permission of instructor, if space is available
Instructor(s): B. Rubenstein
EDU 455 · Policy and Practice in Developmental Differences
Creates opportunities, support, and resources for individuals concerned with developmental differences and normalcy. Welcomes participants from various positions, interests and experiences, including health and human service professionals, educators, family members, persons with developmental differences, and scholars. Oriented by a developmental, life-long, and multi-disciplinary approach, participants work to dispute dominant disability discourses of 'lacks and absences' and to reconsider developmental differences as neither inherent nor ‘less than’ what is needed.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Occasionally
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Stein; Hetherington; Mock
EDU 457 · Counseling Theory and Practice I
Introduces the major theories of counseling and their relationships to counseling practice in a variety of settings. Addresses the historical development and views of human nature for each theory, as well as the counselor’s role in facilitating change. Analyzes professional issues, such as professional organizations, licensure, counseling ethics, and multicultural competence and awareness. Basic interviewing and counseling skills as well as integrating theoretical approaches with skill development for counseling practice are introduced.
Prerequisites: EDU 450 or EDU 472 concurrently
Offered: Every fall
Restrictions: Open to students who are not matriculated in the counseling program only with permission of instructor, if space is available
Instructor(s): Guiffrida; Mackie; Marquis
EDU 459 · Contemporary Issues in School Counseling
Reviews a wide array of current issues and strategies for school counseling, including child abuse and mandated reporting; legal and ethical issues; working with multicultural, diverse, and special populations; the counselor’s role in responding to eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, violence, and more. The course entails lectures, class discussions, in-class and extra-class projects that combine knowledge in many disciplines with self-understanding and perceptive abilities.
Prerequisites: EDF 450
Offered: Every fall
Restrictions: Matriculated counseling students only
Instructor(s): B. Rubenstein; Mackie
EDU 460 · Counseling Theory and Practice II
Enhances counseling and communication skills and knowledge of the counseling relationship, as well as strategies for crisis intervention. Prepares and supports students in their Practicum in Counseling (EDF 450), which may be done concurrently.
Prerequisites: EDU 457
Offered: Every spring
Restrictions: Matriculated counseling students only
Instructor(s): Guiffrida; Mackie; Marquis
EDU 465 · Assessment and Appraisal
Explores the fundamentals of selecting, administering, interpreting, and presenting tests as a component of the diagnostic and counseling process. Includes discussions of the principles of measurement; an examination of intelligence, career, personality and other test instruments; rationale for test selection; guidelines for test administration; and ethical use of appraisal in decision making and treatment planning.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every fall and spring (may change in future years)
Restrictions: Open to students who are not matriculated in the counseling program only with permission of instructor, if space is available
Instructor(s): Gray
EDU 466 · Problem Identification and Intervention in Counseling I
Focuses on identification and treatment of clinical problems that students may encounter as practicing professionals. Begins with critical analysis of a range of diagnostic strategies. Introduces intake assessments, principles of case conceptualization, documentation, and treatment planning. Students are oriented to the DSM-IV-TR and multiaxial diagnosis. DSM-IV-TR diagnostic categories are considered in depth, including V codes, disorders of childhood, adjustment disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders. A variety of interventions is considered, and opportunities are provided to make diagnostic assessments and construct treatment plans using confederate case clients and videotapes.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every fall
Restrictions: Matriculated counseling students only
Instructor(s): Douthit
EDU 470 · Multicultural Perspectives in Counseling
Addresses issues of culture, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual preference, and social class in relation to current counseling theory and practice. Students examine their own cultural identities and values and how these may impact their work as counselors serving diverse populations. Issues include recognition/acceptance of diversity; knowledge of multicultural issues and concepts; knowledge of specific cultural and racial/ethnic groups; personal, institutional, sociopolitical responses to diversity; and communication and counseling skills for diverse populations.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every spring and summer A
Restrictions: Open to students who are not matriculated in the counseling program only with permission of instructor, if space is available
Instructor(s): Mackie; Swanson
EDU 471 · Counselor as Systems Consultant
Explores the different consultation and advocacy processes needed to identify and overcome organizational and institutional barriers that impair the development of individuals, small groups, and larger social units, with an emphasis on equity and successful identity achievement. Gives primacy to a social-systems view of schools and community agencies and focuses on developing proficiency in systems analysis and strategies for implementing system changes. Theories and models of consultation to systems are introduced and incorporated into practice.
Prerequisites: EDU 453; EDF 450 or concurrently
Offered: Every fall and spring (may change in future years)
Restrictions: Matriculated counseling students only
Instructor(s): Stein; Jefferson; J. Rubenstein
EDU 472 · Principles and Practices of Community Mental Health Counseling
Introduces the counseling profession with an emphasis on the counselor’s role in community agencies and facilities. Examines the responsibilities of the community counselor from a historical, theoretical, ethical, and practical point of view. Explores the helping relationship, the roles of the community counselor, and the professional practice issues related to providing community counseling services, historically and today. Focuses on the fundamental elements of basic listening and communication skills that serve as the building blocks for more advanced counseling skills.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every fall
Restrictions: Open to students who are not matriculated in the counseling program only with permission of instructor
Instructor(s): Mackie
EDU 473 · Problem Identification and Intervention in Counseling II
A continuation of Problem Identification and Intervention in Counseling I. Students are introduced to additional DSM-IV-TR diagnostic categories, including dissociative disorders, dementia, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, eating disorders, factitious disorders, and sexual and gender identity disorders. A variety of interventions is considered, and opportunities are provided to make diagnostic assessments and construct treatment plans using confederate case clients and videotapes.
Prerequisites: EDU 466
Offered: Every spring
Restrictions: Matriculated counseling students only
Instructor(s): Douthit
EDU 474 · Addictions Counseling and Prevention
Introduces the field of addictions counseling and prevention. Surveys the current state of addictions in the United States; examines epidemiological perspectives and etiological theories; explores current forms of treatment, assessment, diagnosis, prevention, and clinical research; and discusses the legal, ethical, and professional issues related to the practice of addictions counseling.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every spring
Restrictions: Open to students who are not matriculated in the counseling program only with permission of instructor, if space is available
Instructor(s): Linnenberg; Mackie
EDU 479 · Promoting Mental Health in Midlife and Old Age
Focuses on challenges likely to affect psychological wellness that are commonly encountered in aging populations. Students consider the responses of older adults to socioeconomic constraints, grief and loss, chronic illness, retirement and changing identity, increasing dependency, loneliness, death and dying, and structural ageism. Attention is given to DSM-IV-TR diagnostic categories particularly germane to later life and to the unique manifestations of common mental disorders in aging adults. Students are exposed to assessments and intervention strategies specifically designed for use in later life.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every odd spring
Restrictions: Open to students who are not matriculated in the counseling program and human development gerontological concentration only with permission of instructor.
Instructor(s): Douthit
EDU 494 · Human Development in Old Age
Examines aging as dynamic complexes of socio-cultural, political processes between persons over histories, localized by gender, ethnicity, social status, life experiences, sexual orientations, and health/illness. Examines issues concerning cultural, gender, ethnic, and social class diversity in the contexts of aging. Sociocultural ecologies of aging, such as families, communities, and societies are explored relative to developmental needs and resources. Introduces participants to a spectrum of community resources involved in supporting well-being in old age and involves elders and gerontological professionals the classroom. Assorted field experiences with local programs and elders are part of the curriculum.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every even spring
Restrictions: None
Instructor(s): Stein
EDU 549 · Contemporary Learning Theories
Explores the meaning of the construct “learning” and its relation to the construct “development.” Behaviorist learning theory is briefly reviewed, including the ways that it is still a guiding force in educational settings. A variety of more contemporary theories and views of learning are considered, including those that have emerged from research in laboratory, naturalistic, and formal educational settings. These include neo-nativist views, activity theory, situated learning, communities of learners, anchored instruction, and the relations between learning and motivational factors. Emphasizes learning as an active process in pursuit of personally meaningful goals and the appropriate roles adult guidance plays in the learning process.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every even spring
Restrictions: Doctoral students only
Instructor(s): French
EDU 552 · Counselor Education
Introduces the professional field of counselor education and an understanding of theory, research, and practices in counselor education. Includes the history, roles, standards, ethics, professional organizations, and publications of the counselor education field. Also includes instructional theory and opportunities to observe counselor education and practice instructional skills.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every even fall
Restrictions: Enrollment limited to matriculated doctoral degree candidates in the counseling program, or by permission of instructor
Instructor(s): Douthit
EDU 553 · Counselor Supervision
Introduces the field of counselor supervision and an understanding of theory, research, and practices in counselor supervision. Includes history, standards, ethics, professional organizations, and publications in counselor supervision. Also includes opportunities to observe and practice counseling supervision.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every spring
Restrictions: Enrollment limited to matriculated doctoral degree candidates in the counseling program, or by permission of instructor
Instructor(s): Guiffrida
EDU 554 · Advanced Theory, Research, and Practice in Group Work
Deepens students’ theoretical and practical understanding of group facilitation and group counseling. Students are encouraged to integrate their theoretical study with personal and practical experiences in the classroom and the field.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every odd spring
Restrictions: Enrollment limited to matriculated doctoral degree candidates in the counseling program, or by permission of instructor
Instructor(s): G. Rubenstein; Jefferson
EDU 555 · Advanced Counseling Theory, Research, and Practice
Aims to deepen students’ knowledge of basic counseling approaches; introduce new counseling theories and approaches; examine theories from various critical perspectives; understand counseling outcome research; develop students’ own integrated theories and practices of counseling, and more.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every even spring
Restrictions: Enrollment limited to matriculated doctoral degree candidates in the counseling program, or by permission of instructor
Instructor(s): Marquis
EDU 557 Selected Theories of Human Development
Each year a different topic is taught by different faculty members.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Occasionally (next offered Fall 2007 by Swanson and Spring 2008 by O’Connor)
Restrictions: Doctoral students or by permission of instructor
Instructor(s): French; O’Connor; Swanson
EDU 560 · Research in Cognitive Development
Provides a critical overview of theories and research in cognitive development, from birth through adolescence. Explores the contextualized (ecological) perspective and what it might tell us about human thought; the origins of knowledge; ecological cognition; culture and cognition; and the “self.”
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every odd spring
Restrictions: Doctoral students or by permission of instructor Instructor(s): French; O’Connor; Peterson
ED 561 A, B, C; ED 562 A, B, C · Counseling and Human Development Cohort Seminar (no credit)
Designed to support students enrolled in the first two years of the accelerated Ed.D. programs in counseling and human development. Focuses on the challenges in developing a dissertation topic, creating the environment at work to support the dissertation topic, and examining the existing scholarly literature related to the potential dissertation topic. Meetings are held as needed by students after the first required meeting each semester, and will meet frequently in the second year.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every summer A, B every fall, C every spring
Restrictions: Enrollment in the accelerated Ed.D.
Instructor(s): Mackie, Douthit; Erickson
ED 563 · Counseling and Human Development Proposal Seminar
Provides support to students as they develop and write the dissertation proposal in preparation for the oral defense. Support in submitting the forms for the Research Subjects Review Board also provided.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every summer (starting Summer 2008)
Restrictions: Enrollment in the accelerated Ed.D.
Instructor(s): Mackie; Douthit; Erickson
EDU 563 · Advocacy, Consulting, and Systems Change as Counseling Practice
Situates counselors, clients, schools, and community agencies in relation to relevant social systemic forces. Explores systems theory and models of intervention that are facilitated through advocacy, consultation, and challenge to existing social systems.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every odd fall
Restrictions: Enrollment limited to matriculated doctoral degree candidates in the counseling program, or by permission of instructor
Instructor(s): Jefferson; J. Rubenstein
ED 564 · Counseling and Human Development Dissertation Seminar I
Provides ongoing support to students as they work through the various aspects of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting their dissertation data.
Prerequisites: ED 563
Offered: Every fall (starting Fall 2008)
Restrictions: Enrollment in the accelerated Ed.D.
Instructor(s): Mackie; Douthit; Erickson
EDU 564 · Contemporary Trends in Mental Health Appraisal, Intervention, and Research
Designed to familiarize students with contemporary approaches to appraisal and intervention in mental health practice and to introduce relevant “cutting edge” trends in research. Students learn a number of contrasting diagnostic paradigms, study a range of clinical problems and disorders, and a diversity of intervention options. Students develop further understandings of the DSM-IV-TR, multiculturally appropriate assessment instruments, intervention alternatives, and current research trends.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every odd fall
Restrictions: Enrollment limited to matriculated doctoral degree candidates in the counseling or human development program, and for non-counseling doctoral students, with permission of instructor, based on a background in assessment and appraisal and knowledge of counseling theories
Instructor(s): Douthit
ED 565 · Counseling and Human Development Dissertation Seminar II
Provides ongoing support as students write and complete the dissertation and prepare for the oral defense.
Prerequisites: ED 563 and ED 564
Offered: Every spring (starting Spring 2009)
Restrictions: Enrollment in the accelerated Ed.D.
Instructor(s): Douthit; Mackie; Erickson
EDU 565 · Research in Life Course Studies
Scrutinizes major sociological approaches to the study of the human life course, examining individual outcomes, populations-level patterns, and symbolic outcomes. Offers a review of theoretical developments in the study of human development and the life course. Includes exploratory research projects by students conducting life history interviews.
Prerequisites: Prior coursework in human development
Offered: Every even fall
Restrictions: Enrollment limited to matriculated Warner doctoral candidates or by permission of instructor
Instructor(s): Stein
EDU 571 · Applied Problems in Human Development
Addresses the ways that positive human development toward well-being is situated within communities and the social institutions in those communities. Class and field work provide familiarity with the developmental and cultural assumptions that underlie a variety of local community, governmental, and educational agencies.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Occasionally
Restrictions: Students matriculated in human development programs or permission of instructor
Instructor(s): Stein; French; Swanson
EDU 572 · Development of Selves
Offers an interdisciplinary treatment of the development of self and identity, considering psychological, sociological, anthropological, and historical theories of selfhood and its development. Emphasis is placed on understanding selfhood in relation to the sociocultural contexts of development.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every even fall
Restrictions: Students matriculated in human development programs or permission of instructor
Instructor(s): O’Connor; French; Swanson
EDU 573 · Developmental Interventions in Community Settings
Focuses on developmental needs across the lifespan with an emphasis on prevention and intervention programs that address these needs. This applied approach to human development is directed toward the design and implementation of programs facilitating psychological competence and empowerment, preventing disorder, and promoting social change. Their goal is to optimize the well-being of individuals, families, and communities with empirically-based and developmentally appropriate intervention strategies.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Occasionally
Restrictions: Students matriculated in human development programs or by permission of instructor
Instructor(s): Swanson
EDU 577 · Integrating Critical Biology in the Study of Human Development
Examines the biology of human development through a lens that focuses on the reciprocal relationship between socio-cultural phenomena and human biological processes. Introduces students to key terms and concepts that allow them to engage in a critical examination of contemporary doctrine in the fields of genetics, neuroscience, endocrinology and cardiovascular physiology. Particular attention is given to an exploration of biological plasticity and to understanding how, at a molecular level, social arrangements can shape human development across the life course.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Occasionally
Restrictions: Students matriculated in human development programs or by permission of instructor
Instructor(s): Douthit
Clinical Experiences
Students in most counseling programs are required to complete a series of practica and/or internships. The nature and duration of these internships is determined by the specific program and specialization sought, although all internships include a combination of work at an internship site consistent with the chosen area of specialization, individual and group supervision, and attendance at weekly university seminars. Internships take place in a fall/spring sequence at the end of the program, unless otherwise indicated. Enrollment is limited to matriculated master’s or doctoral degree candidates in the appropriate counseling program or by permission of the department chair.
Master’s Level
EDF 450 · Practicum in Counseling (formerly EDU 458) (3 credits)
Develops and improves counseling skills with clients and groups and observes the action of social systems in a real-world environment in this introductory on-site practicum experience in a school or agency setting. Students work at the site, tape counseling sessions, receive individual and group supervision, and attend a weekly university class.
Prerequisites: EDU 457; EDU 460 or concurrently
Offered: Every spring
Restrictions: Enrollment limited to matriculated master’s degree candidates in the counseling program
Instructor(s): B. Rubenstein; Douthit; Mackie
EDF 450 is a prerequisite to all other master’s counseling internships.
EDF 451 · Supervised Internship in School Counseling I 3 F
EDF 452 · Supervised Internship in School Counseling II 3 S
EDF 458 · Supervised Internship in Community Mental Health Counseling 0-9 F/S
EDF 459 · Supervised Internship in Gerontological Mental Health Counseling 0-6 F/S
EDF 461 · Supervised Internship in Student Affairs Practice I
EDF 462 · Supervised Internship in Student Affairs Practice II
Doctoral Level
EDF 558 · Supervised Internship in Teaching and Clinical Supervision 3 credits, year-long
EDF 559 · Supervised Internship in Counseling Practice, 3 credits, year-long
EDF 560 · Supervised Internship in Mental Health Counseling 6 credits, year-long
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