EDSC

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EDSC

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1

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1

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course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

Interventions:

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EDSC

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1

Credits (max)

1

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course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course emphasizes practical counseling experience utilizing rudimentary counseling skills when working with approved supervisors in school counseling programs, mental health agencies, and recording volunteer practice clients. All practicum sites have been pre-approved to meet certification standards. A primary purpose of this course is to provide beginning counseling students with a supportive learning environment and ground them in practical skills and application to the counseling profession. Students will have opportunities to practice, enhance, and refine their emerging counseling skills acquired in class, as well as through structured supervised learning opportunities in schools and clinical settings. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.

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EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

Subject

EDSC

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

Understanding sociocultural and individual differences is essential to the work of counselors. This course provides a contextual and applied understanding of working with clients who are culturally diverse. The purpose of this course is to expand one's understanding of the impact of sociocultural and contextual factors, the interaction of identities, and the application of this knowledge to working with underserved and under- addressed individuals in counseling. Both intervention and prevention strategies will be addressed. The student will be required to demonstrate a working knowledge of key concepts in sociocultural counseling and the topical areas addressed in the course. Prerequisite: Enrollment in Executive Program in School and Mental Health Couseling. 1 Course Unit

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course emphasizes practical counseling experience utilizing rudimentary counseling skills when working with approved supervisors in school counseling programs, mental health agencies, and recording volunteer practice clients. All practicum sites have been pre-approved to meet certification standards. A primary purpose of this course is to provide beginning counseling students with a supportive learning environment and ground them in practical skills and application to the counseling profession. Students will have opportunities to practice, enhance, and refine their emerging counseling skills acquired in class, as well as through structured, supervised learning opportunities in schools and clinical settings. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling. 0 Course Units

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course explores the characteristics of developmental change over time - from infancy through late adulthood - and the processes or mechanisms underlying these changes. Students will gain an understanding of the fundamental theories and research traditions of the field, how variations in context influence development, and how theory and research can be applied to real world issues. Using a cultural ecological framework, we will examine theoretical approaches to the study of human development emphasizing the importance of contextual factors (e.g., race, ethnicity, culture, gender, socioeconomic status, historical moment, etc.) and individual perceptions in understanding growth and change. Students will be encouraged to explore developmental change and growth as they occur across different developmental periods of life and within a wide variety of settings and cultural contexts in order to help them begin to crystallize their own world-views and conceptual frameworks of human development. Throughout the semester we will search for new ideas, challenge old ones, and wrestle with paradoxical issues. Prerequisite: Enrollment in Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling. 1 Course Unit

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course explores the characteristics of developmental change over time - from infancy through late adulthood - and the processes or mechanisms underlying these changes. Students will gain an understanding of the fundamental theories and research traditions of the field, how variations in context influence development, and how theory and research can be applied to real world issues. Using a cultural ecological framework, we will examine theoretical approaches to the study of human development emphasizing the importance of contextual factors (e.g., race, ethnicity, culture, gender, socioeconomic status, historical moment, etc.) and individual perceptions in understanding growth and change. Students will be encouraged to explore developmental change and growth as they occur across different developmental periods of life and within a wide variety of settings and cultural contexts in order to help them begin to crystallize their own world-views and conceptual frameworks of human development. Throughout the semester we will search for new ideas, challenge old ones, and wrestle with paradoxical issues. Prerequisite: Enrollment in Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course explores the characteristics of developmental change over time - from infancy through late adulthood - and the processes or mechanisms underlying these changes. Students will gain an understanding of the fundamental theories and research traditions of the field, how variations in context influence development, and how theory and research can be applied to real world issues. Using a cultural ecological framework, we will examine theoretical approaches to the study of human development emphasizing the importance of contextual factors (e.g., race, ethnicity, culture, gender, socioeconomic status, historical moment, etc.) and individual perceptions in understanding growth and change. Students will be encouraged to explore developmental change and growth as they occur across different developmental periods of life and within a wide variety of settings and cultural contexts in order to help them begin to crystallize their own world-views and conceptual frameworks of human development. Throughout the semester we will search for new ideas, challenge old ones, and wrestle with paradoxical issues. Prerequisite: Enrollment in Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course is designed for counselors in training. To that end, this course will cover topics related to statistics and research methodology using instructional strategies intended to build the capacity of counselors-in- training to understand, interpret and use statistics and research methods to support their work with students, school staff, and school administrators. The majority of the course will involve a balance of lecture, discussion, and interactive practice activities, linking statistics and research methods to counseling and the real-world responsibilities of counselors-in-training. Prerequisite: Enrollment in Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course addresses career development throughout the life span. It includes the nature of work, career assessment measures, classification systems, and theory related to vocational planning. Student self- assessment, career guidance programs, and unique needs of special populations are covered. Prerequisite: Enrollment in Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course is designed as an introduction to the use of groups in counseling practice. Its chief purpose is to provide students with an overview of basic elements of group process, with a focus on stages of group development; guidelines for multicultural practice; ethical and professional issues in group practice; and group leadership. The course is a combination of didactic and experiential elements, including demonstrations, short lectures, discussions of group process concerns, and questions and answers. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course emphasizes practical counseling experience utilizing rudimentary counseling skills when working with approved supervisors in school counseling programs, mental health agencies, and recording volunteer practice clients. All practicum sites have been pre-approved to meet certification standards. A primary purpose of this course is to provide beginning counseling students with a supportive learning environment and ground them in practical skills and application to the counseling profession. Students will have opportunities to practice, enhance, and refine their emerging counseling skills acquired in class, as well as, through structured supervised learning opportunities in schools and clinical settings. The Practicum is the initial opportunity for students to synthesize and integrate theoretical information from course work into their individual counseling and small group work. These objectives are met at the clinical site, through individual recorded client sessions, and in class. An additional aim of this course is to help students increase and explore their own self-knowledge as providers of counseling services to others. The course promotes an awareness and better understanding of oneself, how individual understanding may impact professional practice; appreciation of others, reinforcing the importance of empathic attention to the needs of others differing from ones own (cultural, educational, and socioeconomic background); and professional development, emphasizing skill building, ethics, and providing counseling services. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course is a continuation of Practicum II for students who need to complete their field placements. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

to School and Mental

Subject

EDSC

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course provides the experience necessary to develop the skills to implement a comprehensive, developmental, and collaborative school counseling or mental health program. The course also translates knowledge, skills, attitudes to practice, and competencies that foster professionalism in school and community settings. Students will also complete supervised field experiences that provide actual on- the-job experience for a minimum of 420 clock hours of instructional experience for school counselor certification and/or 600 clock hours of supervised internship and a minimum of 240 hours of direct service to individuals and groups for Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) eligibility. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course will focus on the basics of systems intervention with a specific focus on families and groups, and a second focus on diversity and racial stress and literacy in systems. The purpose is to develop more advanced knowledge of practical therapeutic problem-solving skills at the graduate student level using ecological, systemic, and cultural perspectives. Students will be exposed to basic group therapy strategies with children and youth, with family interventions across various school-based emotional health diagnostic populations, and how to intervene within groups and families in which cultural differences and styles are key themes. The student will be required to demonstrate a working knowledge of the key concepts in systems intervention, to make preliminary judgments about how to apply various strategies to specific problems in a variety of naturalized and formal therapeutic contexts including schools, homes, and community centers, and evaluated on the ability to react spontaneously to moment-by-moment shifts in group and family therapy processes. Students will also be challenged to develop a preliminary rationale for a systemic theory of behavior change. Given the diversity of clients that counselors see professionally, some demonstrated knowledge of how cultural differences will be addressed in the counseling session and in the relationships of larger societal institutions will be expected. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

Utilizing & Building Resources within Community Agencies & Orgs

Subject

EDSC

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course is intended to engage you in thoughtful discussion about working with diverse learners while presenting factual information about specific areas of need. Our work will be situated within a socio- cultural framework that sees our students as resources that enrich our counseling work and their communities. In this class, we will address content related to both Special Education/Students with Disabilities and English Language Learners. As such, we use three major themes as central to school counseling work and professionalism: Supporting students with disabilities and English language learners; development of inclusive and empowering student practices and environments; and supporting positive school, community and life goals which affirm diversity and ensure equitable outcomes for all students. Over the course of the semester, you will have an opportunity to clarify and challenge your beliefs about working with students with diverse learning needs in your role as a school counselor, in urban and diverse environments. In particular, through course readings, discussion, and projects students will be challenged to think deeply and thoroughly about educating diverse students in schools, through the following core elements: a) taking an inquiry stance; b) urban contexts of schools, c) supporting social justice & equity, d) integrating theory with practice. In doing so, students will critically examine their own role in providing services to students which will support equitable, positive, student- and family-centered school and life outcomes. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course provides the experience needed to develop the skills to implement a comprehensive, developmental and collaborative school counseling or mental health program. The course also translates knowledge, skills, attitudes to practice and competencies that foster professionalism in school and community settings. Students will also complete supervised field experiences that provide actual on-the- job experiences for a minimum of 420 clock hours of instructional experience for school counselor certification and/or 600 clock hours of supervised internship and a minimum of 240 hours of direct service to individuals and groups for Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) eligibility. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course will be a hybrid course combining advanced counseling skills and counseling related to human sexuality issues. The advanced counseling skills portion of the class will be understood as an elaboration of the basic understanding of theoretical interventions learned in the first year of the program by presenting students with information about case conceptualization and more advanced intervention from three major theoretical orientations (cognitive behavioral, psychoanalytic, and emotion-focused therapy). There will also be a brief consideration of what it means to integrate and combine different theoretical approaches, if they really are as different as we think. Topics in human sexuality that commonly present in school and mental health settings will be used as the context for applying advanced skills. This course aims to present students with factual information about advanced skills and human sexuality while also providing an atmosphere in which self- reflection and affective learning can facilitate counselor development in the areas of advanced skills and human sexuality. Prerequiite: Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course will familiarize counseling students with the major mental disorders, as well as with conceptions of mental health, mental health promotion, resilience and recovery. It is important that counselors, regardless of concentration or specialization, be acquainted with the language, taxonomy, conceptualizations, and developments in the study of psychopathology, as well as a sense of the lived experience of people with mental disorders. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

& EDSC 6080B Counseling and Education and Research and Evaluation Seminar in

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EDSC

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

In this course, we will discuss the impact of systemic oppression on our clients’ wellbeing, our own and our client’s intersectional identities, ways to decolonize mental health practices, interventions that incorporate decolonized ideals, and how to engage our clients in radical healing practices that uphold their humanity. This is achieved in a 4-session, e vibrant, sometimes personal, discussion and experience. Feminist Therapy is a core foundation of this course, which although constructed by women, in the feminist tradition, can be applied broadly for a wide range of clients. While some background in feminist theory or other liberation theories is helpful, it is not required. The impacts of sexism, racism, and classism in the U.S. will also be touched on heavily throughout our time together. While we will offer resources, provide some education, and facilitate discussion, some background in this area is also helpful, though not required. Our hope is to raise consciousness around the systemic factors that impact the lives of your clients, while simultaneously offering you new perspectives and models of thinking for how to approach your work with them. We want the course to be additive, each class increasing building upon the last until we reach our final meeting and the end goal of understanding radical healing. We want you to see radical healing as a potential approach to therapeutic intervention, a broad clinical lens, and a possible inspiration for action e in terms of the way you engage with clients and with your communities. Topics addressed in this course include intersectionality and how it both applies to identities within the therapy room as well as clients’ experiences in the real world; historical and current perspectives of sexism, racism, and classism in the U.S. and Philadelphia specifically and how racism and classism impact clients’ interactions with systems and us; decolonizing approaches to therapy, including a brief overview of Liberation Psychology and Ethnopolitical Psychology and a deeper dive into Feminist Therapy; and how we can help clients engage in radical healing to better meet their needs.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

Internship II, a continuation of Internship I, continues to provide the experience needed to develop the skills to implement a comprehensive, developmental and collaborative school counseling or mental health program. Students will continue to work on translating their knowledge, skills and attitudes to practice. The course also uses knowledge of the following areas to provide students with an understanding of the hand-on experiences of a school counselor K-12 and a mental health counseling professional: individual and group counseling, classroom guidance activities and academic, personal/social and career interventions; consultation, coordination, and referral; school/agencies policies and procedures; community-based agencies and referrals; working with students with disabilities and English language learners; professional, ethical, and legal considerations; assessment and evaluation techniques; supervision and professional development through Seminar Group. Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

This course will provide an overview of the foundations of addictions from a theoretical, practical and applicable standpoint. The basics of understanding the process of screening, assessing and treating addictions will be discussed as well as a focus on the strengths and wellness perspective of persons with addictions. In addition, students will gain an understanding of the effects and treatment of co-occurring disorders (e.g., addiction and depression). Addiction lingo, positive psychology and the various types of addictions will be addressed along with etiological models and current approaches for treatment. Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

Prerequisite

Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental

Due to the overwhelming incidence of trauma, adversity, and toxic stress among consumers of mental health services and the potential profound and pervasive impact of trauma on development, it is essential that mental health professionals gain the necessary knowledge, competencies, and skills to foster resilience and healing. This course explores how trauma impacts not only cognitive and emotional processing, but also dysregulates neurophysiology, and discusses evidence based assessments and interventions that counselors can use to help alleviate the negative impact of trauma with their clients. This course is designed to provide foundational trauma education for mental health professionals working within schools and community settings to promote their ability to recognize trauma responses, to create trauma-sensitive educational and clinical environments to foster learning, growth and health and to develop trauma responsive counseling skills. Health Counseling.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

Prerequisite

Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental

This course builds on the previous summer's introduction to the counseling profession with focused exploration of school counseling and clinical mental health counseling pathways.

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu

Subject

EDSC

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.upenn.edu