Lisa   O. Ellis   Psychotherapy   &   Counselling Services

 

 

 

Human Development

Focuses on the development of the individual from conception through intricate changes of growth and aging over the life span, including information about scientific discoveries and personal insights throughout life.

 

Professional Identity and Ethics of Clinical Health Counselors

Overview of the counseling profession including the history and philosophy of the counseling profession; the roles, functions, and relationships with other human service providers of counselors; and professional organization membership and credentialing, including certification, licensure, and accreditation practices and standards.

 

Counseling Theories

Intensive study of counseling theories that provides the student with models to conceptualize client presentation and that helps the student select appropriate counseling interventions. This course exposes models of counseling that are consistent with current professional research and practice in the field.

 

Research Methods and Applications

An introduction to the basic elements of research design and data analysis.

 

Career Development

An examination of major career theoretical approaches and decision-making models, along with the interrelationships of work with relevant life factors, including the roles of multicultural and diversity issues. In addition, career assessment instruments and techniques, general career/occupational resources, and counseling interventions will be evaluated.

 

Counseling Techniques

An introductory counseling experience where students demonstrate counseling techniques shown to be effective when working with specific populations of clients with mental and emotional disorders. Students learn to modify interventions to make them culturally appropriate for diverse populations.

 

Clinical Mental Health Counseling Practicum

Designed to give students an on-site, structured, introductory counseling experience in a clinical mental health setting. Under the supervision of an appropriately credentialed site supervisor, the student offers appropriate individual and group counseling services and engages in the other professional activities related to the function of the professional counselor in that setting

 

Group Counseling Procedures and Techniques

An examination of group dynamics, ethical issues special to group work, and group leadership skills. Topics include member roles, stages of group development, and leadership styles and techniques. Students participate in small group activities for a minimum of 10 hours over the course of the academic term.

 

Marriage and Family Counseling

Overview of several theoretical constructs and approaches to family therapy, including a study of the structural school, systems approaches, Bowen’s theory of family systems, and the contributions of Alfred Adler. Topics include sexual dysfunctions, divorce, sexual assault, and families of poverty

 

Abnormal Behavior

An examination of the current diagnostic categories listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual TR-V. Attention is devoted to the organic, environmental, developmental, and psychological origins of these emotional disorders. Additional training focuses on the counseling interventions designed to address these concerns

 

Addiction Counseling

Examines the compelling and emerging questions common to addictive behaviors. Explores the research devoted to the physiology of addictions, societal reinforcers, and the psychological explanations for addictive behaviors as well as the treatment strategies designed to ameliorate the addiction and related concerns.

 

Administration and Supervision of Mental Health Agencies

An examination of the approaches to the administration of mental health programs and of the supervision of mental health personnel. Attention is given to the management of human resources, grants development, budgeting, and evaluation of personnel and programs. Additional instruction is provided in the areas of counseling supervision models, practices, and processes

 

Evaluation and Assessment

An overview of test design, construction, and application. Emphasis is placed on intellectual, cognitive, and educational tests, while personality, vocational, and interest inventories also are introduced. Purposes and interpretations arapproached historically, theoretically, and statistically.

 

Cross-Cultural Counseling

Examination and application of counseling strategies appropriate for culturally diverse clients; focuses on the need for counselors to examine their own feelings and attitudes toward diverse populations.

 

Legal and Ethical Issues in Counseling

An in-depth examination of the major legal and ethical issues facing the counseling profession.

 

Grief, Loss and Trauma

An advanced counselling course requiring students to integrate counselling theories, skills, and techniques relevant to grief, loss, and trauma counsellng.

 

Dynamics of Play

Examination of the theoretical, practical, and therapeutic aspects of play in relation to the development of young children. Emphasis is placed on theories and techniques of child-centered play therapy and its use in a variety of settings. The course is appropriate for both counselors and teachers and is available to post MEd students seeking professional counselor license.

 

Survey of Special Education

Provides an overview of the special education field. Particular attention is given to federal and state rules and regulations that govern implementation of special services, basic knowledge relating to disability characteristics and causes, and current trends in special education (e.g., the issue of inclusion and accommodation of special learners in general education settings).

 

Counseling Internship

Intensive, semester-long counseling internship (600 hours) blending supervised counseling experiences in an agency setting supplemented with classroom activities designed to enhance counselor skill development, case management, and treatment planning.