This course provides an overview of common mental health challenges, such as depression and anxiety, crisis, trauma, suicide, and substance use and abuse. The roles of various mental health professionals, such as school counselors, school social workers, clinical mental health counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists will be examined to develop familiarity with the variety of professionals available to help meet student and consumer needs. Finally, students will explore their own career interests, values, aptitudes, and beliefs.

This course will enhance the student's ability to communicate clearly, build healthy relationships with others, resolve conflicts, advocate appropriately, and promote a positive and inclusive learning environment among individuals and groups and to be prepared to work well with diverse populations.

Prerequisites: Admission to the MEd program in counseling, or graduate standing and consent of instructor. This course explores the philosophical foundations of counseling theory. The major constructs of contemporary counseling approaches are included and the practical applications of these theories are analyzed.

Prerequisites: Admission to the MEd program in Counseling, or graduate standing and consent of instructor. This course explores ethical, legal, and professional issues related to counseling. Ethical dilemmas in the provision of counseling services to individuals, couples, families, and groups are defined. Specific ethical codes of professional organizations are examined.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 6010 and CNS ED 6020, or graduate standing and consent of instructor. This course focuses on (1) reviewing knowledge and research in the area of multicultural counseling, (2) developing and/or enhancing skills useful in counseling with individuals from minority populations, and (3) developing levels of personal awareness about stereotypes, and learning how feelings and attitudes about these may impact counseling with individuals from minority populations.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 6010 and CNS ED 6020, or graduate standing and consent of instructor. This course examines the process dynamics of groups, including group development, leadership, norms and therapeutic factors. Group counseling theories and approaches used for other group work including skills, personal growth, support, vocational, and developmental guidance groups are explored. Knowledge and skills of how to facilitate therapeutic groups are included. Students are required to be participant-observers or facilitators of a group outside of class time.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course develops counselors' abilities in assisting clients toward self-awareness through the use of test and non-test data and educational and psychological appraisal techniques. Ethical practices in the use of tests and the maintenance of personnel records are stressed.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 6010 and CNS ED 6020, or graduate standing and consent of instructor. This course includes the knowledge and application of counseling techniques and helping skills with an emphasis on experiential learning. Attention is focused on the development of the helping relationship, including helping processes and rapport building, skills used in the counseling process, and increased awareness of how students' values, beliefs, and behaviors are related to counselor effectiveness.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course examines the etiology, assessment, and diagnosis of mental disorders using contemporary diagnostic systems. Course topics and assignments address the dynamics of adjustment and treatment implications for counselors, school psychologists, and other professionals.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 6200, CNS ED 6020, and either CNS ED 6000 or CNS ED 6060. This course requires 100 clock hours of supervised practice in counseling. It provides opportunity for students to pragmatically integrate and process materials, theories, techniques, and methodologies as they are applied in the counseling profession with emphasis on school counseling.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 6040 and CNS ED 6270, or graduate standing and consent of instructor. This course requires 100 clock hours of field experience for each semester credit hour of enrollment. Students are closely supervised under the direction of a graduate faculty member. Students must demonstrate counseling competencies and skillful ethical practice. Students receive a minimum of 1.5 contact hours of group supervision weekly by a graduate faculty member and 1 contact hour of individual supervision weekly by a field experience site supervisor during terms of enrollment. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 semester credit hours.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 6070. This course provides a survey of counseling in a variety of mental health settings and introduces the basic philosophical, historical, and psychological foundations of clinical mental health counseling. Students explore the foundations and roles of the professional counselor in various community and agency settings.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 6060 with a grade of B- or better, CNS ED 6030, CNS ED 6040, CNS ED 6300. This course is 100 clock-hours of supervised practice in counseling to provide the opportunity for students to pragmatically integrate and process materials, theories, techniques, and methodologies as they are applied in the counseling profession, focusing on clinical mental health counseling. This course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 6370 with a grade of S, or graduate standing and consent of instructor. This course is one hundred clock-hours of field experience for each semester-credit-hour of enrollment. Students will be closely supervised under the direction of a graduate faculty member. Students must demonstrate counseling competencies and skillful ethical practice. Students will receive 1.5 contact hours of group supervision weekly by a graduate faculty member and 1 contact hour of individual supervision weekly by a field experience site supervisor during terms of enrollment. This course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

Prerequisite: CNS ED 6010 or consent of instructor. This course is an introduction to relationship theory as applied to couples and family counseling. General systems theory, and social constructivism theory are reviewed. Students learn relationship interventions and beginning couple and family counseling techniques. Ethical, professional, and legal issues related to couples and family counseling are addressed.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 6010, or graduate standing and consent of instructor. This course focuses on counseling theories and their applicability to the developmental special concerns of children and adolescents including child at-risk issues such as abuse, suicide, divorce, and death and dying. Individual, group, and family intervention techniques and consultation skills are emphasized, as well as ethical, legal and multicultural considerations for counselors. Strategies presented can be utilized in a variety of settings.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 6010 and ED PSY 6210. This course provides students with a foundation for understanding the history, theories, and application of play therapy. Discussion focuses on working with children in both agency and school settings, as well as how play therapy skills can be incorporated into the student's developing theoretical framework. This course can count toward the Registered Play Therapist credential.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 6010 or consent of instructor. Exploration of the theoretical foundations of contemporary approaches to such addictive behaviors as alcohol and drug abuse, smoking, compulsive gambling, and sexual addiction. The nature, etiology, prevention, and treatment of addictions are discussed and analyzed from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The applications of these specific theoretical models to various treatment settings are examined. Multicultural considerations are also addressed.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 6030, CNS ED 6060, and (ED PSY 6210 or ED PSY 6222). This course introduces students to theory and practice in counseling response to loss, crisis, and trauma experiences. Topics include models of grief counseling, the impact of crises, disasters, other trauma-causing events, and counseling skills and therapeutic interventions appropriate for individuals, families, and groups experiencing loss, crisis, and trauma.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 6030. This course examines the methods to integrate religion and spirituality in counseling. It also addresses counseling strategies for persons of various religious backgrounds, the link between health and religion, and ethics involved in the assessment and integration of religion and spirituality in practice.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 6030 and doctoral standing or consent of instructor. This advanced course addresses theories and research in multicultural counseling.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 7020 or consent of instructor. Engages students in the conduct of an empirical research project. Building from the research proposal developed in CNS ED 7020, students will obtain IRB approval, collect data, analyze the data, and write a manuscript reporting the results in journal article format.

Prerequisites: CNS ED 7030, or graduate standing and consent of instructor. This course offers advanced training in counseling supervision. Students will supervise master's level students in practicum and internship courses in counseling. Students will be expected to maintain an assigned caseload of supervisees and attend three hours of weekly doctoral-level supervision.

Prerequisite: CNS ED 7000. This course is a one hundred clock-hour field experience for each semester-credit hour of enrollment under the direction of a graduate faculty member. Students provide counseling services to clients at field sites, teach and supervise beginning counseling trainees, conduct research projects, and engage in leadership and advocacy. this course may be repeated for a maximum of 9 credit hours.