Mar 28, 2024  
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2019-20 
    
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2019-20 [Archived Catalog]

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EDCE 6240 - Professional School Counseling


Provides students with a comprehensive organizational framework useful for planning, designing, implementing, evaluating, and enhancing content-based guidance and counseling programs and an understanding of the coordination of school counseling program components as they relate to the total school community. Skills associated to counseling, guidance, and consultation will be covered. Explores the application of research that addresses the effectiveness of various school counseling programs and interventions.

Requisites: EDCE 6200
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture, 1.0 discussion
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Acquire knowledge of prevention and crisis intervention strategies.
  • Demonstrates self-awareness, sensitivity to others, and the skills needed to relate to diverse individuals, groups and classrooms.
  • Develop an understanding of advocacy for all students and for effective school counseling programs.
  • Learn applied counseling and intervention skills and strategies for evaluation of counseling outcomes specific to the professional school counselor.
  • Learn how identify student academic, career, and personal/social competencies and the implementation of processes and activities to assist students in achieving these competencies.
  • Learn how to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate comprehensive developmental school counseling (e.g., the ASCA National Standards for School Counseling Programs) and develop an awareness of various systems that affect students, school, and home.
  • Learn how to integrate the school counseling program into the total school curriculum by systematically providing information and skills training to assist pre-K-12 students maximizing their academic, career, and personal/social development.
  • Learn methods of planning for and presenting school counseling-related educational programs to administrators, teachers, parents, and the community.
  • Promote the use of counseling and guidance activities and programs by the total school community to enhance a positive school climate.
  • Select strategies and understand how to use, manage, analyze, and present data from school-based information (e.g., standardized testing, grades,etc), surveys, interviews, focus groups, and needs assessment to improve student outcomes.
  • Understand the outcome research data and best practices as identified in the school counseling research literature.
  • Understand the process of coordination, collaboration, referral, and team-building efforts with teachers, parents, support personnel, and community resources to promote program objectives and facilitate successful student development and achievement.



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