25 courses with the subject MCC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
A foundational framework for clinical counseling that covers initial assessment, interviewing, treatment planning, counselor awareness and reflection and listening and attending skills required to develop and maintain an effective professional counseling environment.
This course examines orientation, history, roles, organizational structures, and ethical issues in the field of professional clinical counseling. Other topics include developing ethical decision-making systems, protection of client confidentiality, maintenance of proper records and documentation, multicultural sensitivity, advocacy and other legal concerns. This class will use both the ACA Code of Ethics and PA jurisprudence, professional development, standards and credentialing will also be covered.
Overview and orientation to theories and practices related to understanding career and vocational life factors and development over the lifespan.
An orientation to the major classical and contemporary theoretical approaches to Life Span development, as well as how these theories understand the nature and needs of individuals at all developmental stages.
This course will cover the practical, ethical, and multiculturally competent administration of individual assessment and testing instruments in counseling. Students will learn to use assessments and test results to enhance their clinical interventions. Course content will prepare students to analyze, interpret, and evaluate assessment reports and recommendations from third parties.
This course presents the processes of individual and group approaches to clinical assessment, differential diagnosis, and treatment planning in the practice of clinical counseling. In order to gain a holistic understanding of clinically significant issues, students learn evidence-based assessment and diagnostic processes related to personality disorders and issues of spirituality and religion in the clinical counseling context. Class time is spent reviewing case studies and case conceptualizations, as well as various treatment modalities and options. This course fulfills a program requirement for licensure in Pennsylvania as a Licensed Professional Counselor.
This course will cover the current DSM psychiatric system, and specifically the characteristics, etiology and contributing factors of specific diagnoses. Students will learn how to arrive at a differential diagnosis. The course will address evidence-based interventions for these diagnoses.
An overview and orientation to the major classical and contemporary clinical theoretical approaches to individual clinical counseling.
Students explore various theories, along with social and political factors, that impact ethnic and non-ethnic minority groups. We will discuss research, and interventions to ethically engage multicultural populations in the practice of clinical counseling. Issues related to sexuality, sizeism, ableism, and spirituality will be covered.
The theory and practice of group clinical counseling with a focus on understanding group development, dynamics, methods and skills as applied through group approach and group process observation as an ethical and multicultural group leader.
This course provides an understanding of the types of research methods, fundamental research designs and basic analytical methods used in the behavioral sciences. Students learn how to select appropriate research designs and employ valid procedures in collecting data. Goals of the course are to understand basic concepts and methods of analysis and ethical and legal considerations in research.
This course serves as an overview of trauma-informed care in counseling. Course content will cover historical trauma treatment, as well as current approaches that include cognitive, neurological, psychological, biochemical, developmental, and interpersonal aspects of trauma work. Consideration will be given to trauma based diagnoses, how trauma prevails in specific populations, and the sociopolitical realities that traumatize some more than others.
This course covers advanced trauma care topics that build upon the knowledge gained and skills developed in the MCC 694 Trauma Informed Care course. The topics covered in this course will include vicarious traumatization of the service provider, treatment strategies for insidious and complex trauma and related dissociative disorders, how the brain responds to trauma, how socio-political oppression informs individuals’ trauma, and how the intergenerational transmission of trauma presents in clients’ trauma narratives and presenting symptomatology.
This course explores the complexity of how people struggle with grief and bereavement. In particular, the course will cover the cultural, emotional, psychological, physical and spiritual dimensions of grief and bereavement across the lifespan. Students will examine current models of grief theory and recovery treatment. Emphasis will be placed on therapeutic strategies for facilitating holistic grief work in counseling.
This course is an overview of crisis intervention. Major theoretical models of situational crises are examined and operationalized across a variety of service delivery systems. Students will develop conceptual competency necessary for professionals engaged in crisis interventions. Special emphasis is given to contemporary research in suicidology, disaster psychology, and crisis management for public schools. Topics of discussion include emergency situations such as natural disasters, terrorism, school violence, abuse, and crisis interventions with diverse populations.
This course covers the theory, principles, and interventions used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The course will explore Aaron Beck’s and Albert Ellis’ versions of CBT utilizing an applied perspective for case conceptualizations and treatment plans. The course will cover empirically based CBT interventions for common psychopathological disorders.
This course will provide a theoretical overview of the main Third Wave Cognitive Behavioral Therapies (CBT) including: Mindfulness, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). Students will also learn how to ethically apply these approaches across a range of practice environments with diverse populations.
This course will introduce students to clinical psychopharmacology and how it should be used ethically in the treatment of mental health disorders. The course will cover psychiatric medications, neurobiology, and treatment guidelines.
This course will cover human sexuality across the lifespan as it construes an important aspect of one’s identity and relationships with others. Course material will explore biological, social, and psychological facets of human sexuality, including development, identity, expression, and dysfunction. This course will not cover sex therapy.
This course utilizes a healing-centered macro social work lens to look more closely into the reality of those experiencing homelessness. In addition to exploring lived experience through case study, this course will also examine the theories often used when working with this population, the approaches best able to assist them, and how the macro lens can inform the micro work and how the micro experience can inform the macro perspective. This course will include a comprehensive review of historical efforts to address homelessness in the United States, current policy and practice initiatives, and the role of social workers, counselors, and other helping professionals within efforts to end the epidemic.
This course is the first in the clinical sequence and requires a clinical placement with a case load totaling 100 clinical hours in one semester, 40 of which need to be direct client contact. Along with the clinical work that includes weekly on-site supervision, the student meets with a faculty-led seminar class to process clinical work and refine other necessary skills, such as note keeping. assessment. and treatment planning.
The course provides an in- depth introduction to mental health telehealth practices, application, and ethics. In this course students will learn how to utilize telehealth as part of case management, counseling, therapeutic practice, and mental health environments. As the virtual world continues to develop and we begin to understand how various communities of people cannot access mental healthcare, mental health professionals must also adapt by learning to implement telehealth services.
This weekly clinical supervision course (Internship I or II) serves as the 2nd and 3rd in the clinical field experience sequence in the masters counseling program. Students are expected to complete 300 hours of field experience in an approved school, institution, or agency in both Internship I and II, totalling 600 hours. Each Internship requires a minimum of 120-direct client contact service hours as well as indirect service hours. Each week students will participate in 3 hours of weekly instruction and group supervision with faculty and fellow Internship students, as well as a minimum of 1-hour weekly on-site-supervision. Students will present cases, site updates, and ethical dilemmas to enhance self-awareness and clinical skills. The Internship Instructor and Site Supervisor will oversee students’ performance to determine student’s satisfactory completion of the Internship experience.
This course is the third in the clinical sequence and requires a clinical placement with a case load totaling 300 clinical hours in one semester, 120 of which need to be direct client contact. Along with the clinical work that includes weekly on-site supervision, the student meets with a faculty-led seminar class to process clinical work and refine other necessary skills, such as entry into the profession, state licensure process, continuing education, and self-management, Audio and/or video recording of clinical work is a requirement.
This course will focus on the diagnosis and assessment of the psychological disorders that affect children and adolescents and the respective counseling treatment needed. The course will focus on case conceptualization, treatment design and unique developmental considerations for this population.
Source: Moravian University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
