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Counseling Psychology| Courses Code | Courses Name | Credit Hours | Course Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| COP-030 | Counseling Psychology | 6 Credits | View Details |
| COP-036 | Multicultural Counseling and Psychology | 6 Credits | View Details |
| COP-145 | Behavior Modification | 6 Credits | View Details |
| COP-830 | Career Counseling | 6 Credits | View Details |
| COP-907 | School Counseling Development | 6 Credits | View Details |
Counseling Psychology
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The context for counseling.
- Stages and skills of counseling.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Rapport and relationship.
- Assessing client problems.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Developing counseling goals.
- Defining strategies and selecting interventions.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Affective interventions.
- Cognitive interventions.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Behavioral interventions.
- Systemic interventions.
- Termination and follow-up.
- Applying counseling skills to other counselor functions.
Multicultural Counseling and Psychology
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Society, culture, counseling, and human services.
- The emerging self and social learning.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Social, cultural, and racial identity.
- Cultural, racial, and ethnic identity models.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Sex, gender, and sexual orientation identity.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Family, culture, and self-concept development.
- Social class and economic considerations.
- Counseling and cultural diversity.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Ethical and legal issues.
Behavior Modification
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Introduction
- Areas of application: an overview
- Getting a behavior to occur more often with positive reinforcement
- Developing and maintaining behavior with conditioned reinforcement
- Decreasing a behavior with extinction
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Developing behavioral persistence through the use of intermittent reinforcement
- Types of intermittent reinforcement to decrease behavior
- Doing the right thing at the right time and place: stimulus discrimination and stimulus generalization
- Developing appropriate behavior with fading
- Getting a new behavior to occur: an application of shaping
- Getting a new sequence of behaviors to occur with behavioral chaining
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Eliminating inappropriate behavior through punishment
- Establishing a desirable behavior by using escape and avoidance conditioning
- Procedures based on principles of respondent conditioning
- Respondent and operant conditioning together
- Transferring behavior to new settings and making it last: generality of behavior change
- Capitalizing on exisiting stimulus control: rules and goals
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Capitalizing on exisiting stimulus control: modeling, guidance, and situational inducement
- Motivation and behavior modification
- Behavioral assessment: initial considerations
- Direct behavioral assessment: what to record and how
- Functional assessment of the causes of problem behavior
- Doing research in behavior modification
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Planning, applying, and evaluating a treatment program
- Token economies
- Helping an individual to develop self-control
- Cognitive behavior modification
- Areas of clinical behavior therapy
- Giving it all some perspective: a brief history
- Ethical issues
Career Counseling
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Introduction to career information, career counseling, and career development.
- Trait-and-factor and developmental theories of career choice and development and their applications.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Learning theorybased, postmodern, socioeconomic, and decision-making theories and their applications.
- A values-based, multicultural approach to career counseling and advocacy
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Clients with special needs.
- Testing and assessment in career development.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Finding, organizing, and using occupational information.
- Using technology in career assessment, career exploration, and career counseling.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Preparing for work.
- Job placement, outplacement, and the job-search process.
- Designing and implementing comprehensive k12 career development programs within the framework of the asca national model.
- Career development in community and four-year colleges and vocationaltechnical schools.
- Trends in the labor market and the factors that shape them.
- Understanding and using occupational classification systems.
- Career development in business.
- Career counselors in private practice: counseling, coaching, consulting, and beyond.
- Ethics and the competencies and credentials needed for career development practice.
- Trends and issues in career information, career development, and career development programming.
School Counseling Development
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The profession of school counseling
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Understanding schools and students
- School counselor competencies: promoting systemic change through leadership, advocacy, collaboration, and teaming
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Comprehensive school counseling programs: planning, implementation, evaluation
- Data-driven school counseling programs: management and accountability
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Facilitating academic transitions
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Guidance curriculum
- Individual planning
- Responsive services: direct interventions
- Responsive services: indirect interventions
- System support
- Legal and ethical concerns in school counseling