8 courses with the subject MSC, 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.
MSC 510Profess Orientation:Ethics/Counsel3
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.
This course will cover the current DSM Diagnostic system, and the characteristics, etiology and contributing factors of specific disabilities and diagnoses found in school aged children. The course will address evidence-based interventions for these disabilities and diagnoses, and in particular, school-based consultation practices. Students will also learn the DSM categories that are relevant for adults, and specifically, those with which their parents or family members may be struggling.
This course teaches the student to apply the theory and practice of group counseling as it is utilized in elementary and secondary school settings. This applied course will focus on the facets of group counseling including: ethics, legalities, diversity, development, dynamics, process, methods, roles, and leadership styles and skills. Students will be required to co-lead a peer group in the classroom setting.
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 prepares future school counselors to work with English language learners (ELLs) in K-12 school settings. The course will teach students the techniques, ethical decision making, and assessment methods effective for use with this unique student group. The course will help students to develop their multicultural competence and advocacy skills in their work with ELLs, their families, and other professionals in the school environment.
Students will be introduced to the theory and practice of school guidance programs. Students will develop an understanding of the history of school guidance programs and will be given the tools to design, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive guidance program. Students will also learn how to put technological tools to practice in school guidance programs and across school settings.
This weekly clinical supervision course (Internship I or II) serves as the 2nd and 3rd in the clinical field experience sequence in the masters of school counseling program. The internship offers the opportunity for school counseling students to synthesize and apply what they have learned in an actual school counseling setting. Students are expected to complete 300 hours of field experience in an approved school in both Internship I and II, totaling 600 hours. Each Internship requires a minimum of 120-direct client contact service hours as well as indirect service hours including: intake sessions, individual and family and group counseling, classroom guidance, and psycho-educational outreach programs. School counseling students must complete one internship in an elementary school setting, and the other in a secondary school setting. 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 from a Certified School Counselor. Internship students will present cases, site updates, and ethical dilemmas to enhance self-awareness and clinical skills. The Internship Instructor and Certified School Counselor Supervisor will oversee students’ performance to determine student’s satisfactory completion of the School Counseling Internship experience.
This weekly clinical supervision course (685 Internship I or 686 Internship II) serves as the 2nd and 3rd in the clinical field experience sequence in the masters of school counseling program. The internship offers the opportunity for school counseling students to synthesize and apply what they have learned in an actual school counseling setting. Students are expected to complete 300 hours of field experience in an approved school 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 including: intake sessions, individual and family and group counseling, classroom guidance, and psycho-educational outreach programs. School counseling students must complete one internship in an elementary school setting, and the other in a secondary school setting. 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 from a Certified School Counselor. Internship students will present cases, site updates, and ethical dilemmas to enhance self-awareness and clinical skills. The Internship Instructor and Certified School Counselor Supervisor will oversee students’ performance to determine student’s satisfactory completion of the School Counseling Internship experience.
