COU

Subject

COU

Type

course

Edition

2019-2020

Source

www.lr.edu

This course serves as the introductory course for individuals seeking a degree in school counseling. COU 510 introduces students to theory as well as research knowledge required for developing comprehensive school counseling programs. Students must demonstrate their ability to analyze, synthesize and integrate knowledge acquired from current research, documents from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the National Standards for School Counseling and course texts. An overview of the principles and practices of counseling services in schools, multiple roles and functions, applicable technology, an understanding of exceptionalities, and program organization will be explored. Attention will also be given to state testing requirements and career pathways as these pertain to the function of the school counselor. COU 510 is a pre-requisite for COU 515Advanced School Counseling.

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

The course is a continuation of COU 510 and is a Tier 2 course with prerequisite requirements of COU 505, 525, 535 and 510. It is designed to build on the student’s theoretical base and that of the scientist-practitioner within the school setting. The primary focus will be on the application of school counseling techniques including the use of technology with all students including those identified as having some type of exceptionality. Various methods of providing services will be explored within the college classroom as well as at the Practicum site. Students will develop methods for successfully blending the theory of a balanced, comprehensive counseling program and the National Standards for School Counseling along with current multiple demands within today’s schools. Discrepancies between the desired role and function and what is most often occurring will be addressed. Forty-five practicum hours are required. Practicum hours must be done within a public school setting and under the direct supervision of a licensed school counselor.(3 credits)

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

The course will focus on establishing and maintaining successful collaborative relationships with special educators. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) and the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) prioritizes the function of collaboration and coordination within the school counselor’s role. Students will develop strategies for building effective teams with special educators, other school staff, parents and community members in order to promote the academic, career, and personal social development of Pre-K-12 students with exceptionalities. Furthermore students will gain information concerning the role of special educators, special education terminology and exceptionality categories, assessment and referral processes, and legal and ethical issues in counseling and special education.

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

credits

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

Subject

COU

Type

course

Edition

2019-2020

Source

www.lr.edu

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2019-2020

Source

www.lr.edu

Subject

COU

Type

course

Edition

2019-2020

Source

www.lr.edu

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2019-2020

Source

www.lr.edu

This is a didactic and experiential course intended to provide students with the knowledge, awareness, and skills necessary to gain an understanding of and begin to use group counseling theories and techniques in helping relationships. This course is designed to help the counselor understand the group counseling process. This includes a review of current literature and research in group counseling; an examination of the leadership role of the counselor in group process; an understanding of the ethical issues of group leadership in counseling; and a review of the developmental stages of counseling in groups. Each student will apply this knowledge by gaining experience as a participant in, and leader of a counseling group. (3 credits) 116

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

50

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2019-2020

Source

www.lr.edu

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

This course examines the etiology, risk factors, assessment, counseling approaches, and treatment of alcoholism and other addictions. Dynamics of addictive behaviors are explored including abuse of substances and process addictions. Special attention is given to psychological factors, personal traits, family dynamics, treatment methods, and implications for schools and communities. It is essential for professionals in the counseling field to have a clear understanding of their own beliefs about addiction and their attitudes toward individuals with addictions. This course will allow you to start this process by exploring the process of addiction to substances (and some process addictions), causality, risk factors, biological, psychological, social manifestations, and treatment modalities. Thus, this course will focus primarily on increasing future counseling professionals’ knowledge and self-awareness of the addictive process. (3 credits)

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2019-2020

Source

www.lr.edu

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

This course will include a review of consultation models and theories useful to school mental health providers in their work with children, parents, staff, and the community. Emphasis will be placed on understanding and applying the triadic model to consultation, especially as it relates to crisis intervention. Developing referral contacts in school and the community will be explored. This course is designed to provide counselors with fundamental concepts, theories, strategies, and skills needed: (1) provide consultation services in a professional capacity, and (2) to understand and conduct effective crisis intervention. Counselors may function in a consultation or counseling capacity in response to potential or real crises. The differences between the counseling and consulting relationship will be stressed.

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

credits

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2019-2020

Source

www.lr.edu

This course covers the spiritual aspects of counseling. Three credits.

Subject

COU

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

117

Subject

COU

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

The course content will emphasize the enactment of advanced counseling skills, use of a consistent theoretical orientation, and professional ethics. Class content may include a combination of didactic instruction, live demonstration, media, review of research, and experiential techniques. Students must be able to demonstrate basic and advanced skills, techniques, use of theory, and professional ethics. This course is a prerequisite for the practicum/internship clinical experience. Three credits.

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

Prerequisite

COU 505, 520, 524, 525, 530, 535, 540, 550, 560 and EDU 506.

This course focuses on a systems approach to family counseling and is designed to enhance family counseling knowledge and skills. Students are challenged to approach family counseling issues from a practitioner-scientist perspective, integrating and applying research-based knowledge and skills in helpful and ethical ways. Three credits.

Subject

COU

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

This course is designed to provide an introduction to the counseling techniques useful in work with pre-adolescent children and their parents. Students will learn the fundamental principles needed to intervene with children within the family context. Special emphasis will be placed on the use of play therapy techniques. Three credits.

Subject

COU

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

This entry-level course provides counselors and other human service workers an overview of the substance abuse process. Specific emphasis will be placed upon counseling those with substance abuse concerns and facilitating changes within their environmental systems (e.g., marriage, family, work, etc.). Students will develop conceptual knowledge, skills, and self- awareness concerning substance abuse etiology, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning through assigned readings, seminar discussions, videotapes, lectures, field experiences, and case presentations. Three credits.

Subject

COU

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

This course will require students to develop background knowledge and specialized counseling skills in the area of chronic pain conditions. Students will do in-depth research of current literature within the field concerning the interrelationship of physical illness, injury, chronic illness, and chronic pain with the emotional/ adjustment issues faced by these clients. Students will learn clinical skills to assist clients in the process of integrative health in situations where management not “cure” is the goal. Students will demonstrate their learning through a series of videotapes and papers requiring analysis and synthesis of research and other information presented in class. Three credits.

Subject

COU

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

This three-part course will explore the issues of violence in our communities and schools. In particular, domestic violence, youth violence, and violence in the workplace will be discussed. Using case studies, current research, and a variety of speakers from local and state agencies, 118

Subject

COU

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

These courses involve either specialty counseling areas not covered in other courses or advanced levels of counseling theory, practice, and research for students considered appropriate. These courses provide students the opportunity to apply scientific inquiry and scholarly research to counseling theory and practice. One, two, or three credits.

Subject

COU

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

Prerequisite

Approval of advisor and program coordinator.

to enrollment.

Subject

COU

Type

course

Edition

2019-2020

Source

www.lr.edu

This course provides students with 100 (40 direct and 60 indirect) supervised hours of experience as clinical mental health counselors working with individuals as well as both large and small groups counseling experiences at pre-arranged sites. This course will expose the student to the practice of counseling with individuals under direct supervision. Students will conduct actual counseling/developmental sessions. The course is designed to facilitate the integration and application of theory and skill in earlier course work. Ethical codes related to the counseling profession will be reviewed and ethical issues and behavior addressed. The primary goal is for students to learn to listen therapeutically, provide the core conditions of counseling as well as additional client care, develop self-awareness related to these roles, and integrate this self-awareness and basic skills into the person the student is becoming as a counselor. Four credits.

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

and PASSED the Core Comprehensive Examination. Supervised on-the-job experiences performing the duties of a professional counselor in a school setting. Internships are viewed as the culminating activity in degree programs and ordinarily follow the completion of coursework and the full complement of supervised counseling practica. Thus, by the time students enter the internship phase of their programs of study, they are prepared to provide valuable and culturally competent services to the consumers within a school setting. COU 590 has a minimum of 300 hours of on-site internship experience in an approved public school setting under the supervision of an approved licensed school counselor. Students must have counselor liability insurance in place prior to their internships. There is a 600 hours of on- site internship graduation requirement for all counseling degree programs. The Specialty Area Capstone Project is to be completed at the end of the first 300 hours, Students who complete 119

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

Prerequisite

Students must be in their last two semesters of coursework AND have completed

and PASSED the Core Comprehensive Examination. Supervised on-the-job experiences performing the duties of a professional counselor in a school setting. Internships are viewed as the culminating activity in degree programs and ordinarily follow the completion of coursework and the full complement of supervised counseling practica. Thus, by the time students enter the internship phase of their programs of study, they are prepared to provide valuable and culturally competent services to the consumers within a school setting. COU 591 has a minimum of 300 hours of on-site internship experience in an approved public school setting under the supervision of an approved licensed school counselor. Students must have counselor liability insurance in place prior to their internships. There is 600 hours on on- site internship graduation requirement for all counseling degree programs. The oral component of the Specialty Area Capstone Project is completed at the end of 600 hours of internship experience (3 credits)

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

Prerequisite

Students must be in their last two semesters of coursework AND have completed

and PASSED the Core Comprehensive Examination and the following courses: COU 505, COU 510, COU 515, COU 520, COU 525, COU 530, COU 535, COU 540, COU 545, COU 550, EDU 505, EDU 506. Permission must be obtained from the Program Coordinator and Clinical Coordinator for any exceptions. Supervised on-the-job experiences performing the duties of a clinical mental health counselor in a mental health setting. Internships are viewed as the culminating activity in degree programs and ordinarily follow the completion of coursework and the full complement of supervised counseling practica. Thus, by the time students enter the internship phase of their programs of study, they are prepared to provide valuable and culturally competent services to the consumers within a mental health setting. COU 592 has a minimum of 300 hours of on-site internship experience in an approved mental health setting under the supervision of an approved supervisor licensed to practice independently (LPC preferred). Students must have counselor liability insurance in place prior to their internships. There is 600 hours of on-site internship graduation requirement for all counseling degree programs. The Specialty Area Capstone Project is to be completed at the end of the first 300 hours, Students who complete COU 592 must subsequently enroll in COU 593 to complete the balance of the 600 hours of internship required for graduation. Three credits.

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

Prerequisite

Students must be in their last two semesters of coursework AND have completed

and PASSED the Core Comprehensive Examination and the following courses: COU 505, COU 510, COU 515, COU 520, COU 525, COU 530, COU 535, COU 540, COU 545, COU 550, EDU 505, EDU 506. Permission must be obtained from the Program Coordinator and Clinical Coordinator for any exceptions. Supervised on-the-job experiences performing the duties of a clinical mental health counselor in a mental health setting. Internships are viewed as the culminating activity in degree programs and ordinarily follow the completion of coursework and the full complement of supervised counseling practica. Thus, by the time students enter the internship phase of their programs of 120

Subject

COU

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2017-2018

Source

www.lr.edu

Prerequisite

Students must be in their last two semesters of coursework AND have completed