Graduate Catalog 2024-2025 
    
    Nov 23, 2024  
Graduate Catalog 2024-2025
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COUN 545 - Foundations of School Counseling

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This course introduces the beginning school counseling student to the history, philosophy, and current trends and issues in a K-12 guidance- based curriculum. Students learn the legal and ethical principles of school counseling as well as the pertinent professional associations for school counselors such as the American Counseling Association and the American School Counselors Association. Students are exposed to the varied tasks throughout all academic levels and the systemic nature of a school counselor’s role. The course also explores the beginning school counseling student’s self-awareness and dispositions toward working closely with students, parents, and other professionals of varying socioeconomic, educational, ethnic, racial, political, and religious backgrounds. The American Psychology Association (APA) writing guidelines are also introduced as the expected format for graduate-level writing. Prerequisite(s): None.



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