| CG414 | ADDICTION KNOWLEDGE | Substances of abuse and their effects on the processes of body and brain; how to screen and assess for substance use disorder, including withdrawal. Includes information on the current medical and pharmacological resources used in the treatment of su... |
| CG415 | TREATMENT KNOWLEDGE FOR CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND ADDICTIVE DISORDERS | How to complete a comprehensive substance abuse assessment, including screening for co-occurring disorders; the principles of effective treatment, models of treatment, recovery, relapse prevention, and continuing care for addiction clients; how to as... |
| CG416 | SERVICE COORDINATION AND DOCUMENTATION FOR CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND ADDICTIVE DISORDERS | How to assess a client’s ongoing needs beyond formal treatment, including the client’s recovery process. Interdisciplinary approaches to addiction treatment, including the counselor’s role in the interdisciplinary team. Prerequisite: CG 414, may be t... |
| CG417 | GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING FOR CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND ADDICTIVE DISORDERS | Reviews basic theories and techniques of group and individual counseling for chemical dependency and addictive disorders and the role of the family in treatment; managing group interactions; and the ethics of group, family and individual counseling.... |
| CG418 | FIELD EXPERIENCE IN CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND ADDICTIVE DISORDERS | Placement in the community under the supervision of a licensed chemical dependency counselor; completion of a minimum of 220 hours; field work is coupled with regular class meetings. Prerequisites: CG 414 and CG 415; CG 416 and CG 417, may be taken c... |
| CG500 | ORIENTATION TO COUNSELING | Introduction to the professional, legal, and ethical responsibilities of counselors, including professional roles and functions. Includes a coursework overview, professional goals and objectives, professional organizations, history and trends, prepar... |
| CG501 | FOUNDATIONS OF SCHOOL COUNSELING | Introduction to the profession of school counseling, including the historical, philosophical, ethical, and legal aspects of counseling within a school setting. Examines current issues and counseling interventions that address the prevention of specif... |
| CG502 | RESEARCH METHODS FOR SCHOOL COUNSELORS | Introduces methods in both quantitative and qualitative educational research. Topics include creating research problem statements and questions, creating a literature review to address those questions, and developing a research design to answer the r... |
| CG505 | HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT | Study of human growth and development throughout lifespan. Includes theories of learning, personality development, and human behavior, as well as multicultural, ethical, and legal considerations. |
| CG509 | RESEARCH METHODS FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS | Overview of principles and methods of quantitative and qualitative research and program evaluation for mental health professionals. Emphasizes evidence/research-based decision making used in community agencies and schools; also, evaluating research r... |
| CG514 | ADDICTION KNOWLEDGE | Substances of abuse and their effects on the processes of body and brain; how to screen and assess for substance use disorder, including withdrawal. Includes information on the current medical and pharmacological resources used in the treatment of su... |
| CG515 | TREATMENT KNOWLEDGE FOR CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND ADDICTIVE DISORDERS | How to complete a comprehensive substance abuse assessment, including screening for co-occurring disorders; the principles of effective treatment, models of treatment, recovery, relapse prevention, and continuing care for addiction clients; how to as... |
| CG516 | SERVICE COORDINATION AND DOCUMENTATION FOR CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND ADDICTIVE DISORDERS | Reviews basic theories and techniques of group and individual counseling for chemical dependency and addictive disorders and the role of the family in treatment; managing group interactions; and the ethics of group, family and individual counseling.... |
| CG517 | GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING FOR CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND ADDICTIVE DISORDERS | Group and Individual Counseling for Chemical Dependency and Addictive Disorders: Prerequisite: CG514. Reviews basic theories and techniques of group and individual counseling for chemical dependency and addictive disorders and the role of the family... |
| CG518 | FIELD EXPERIENCE IN CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND ADDICTIVE DISORDERS | Placement in the community under the supervision of a licensed chemical dependency counselor; completion of a minimum of 220 hours; field work is coupled with regular class meetings. Prerequisite: CG 514 , CG 515; CG 516 and CG 517 may be taken concu... |
| CG530 | TESTS AND MEASUREMENTS | Basic measurement concepts and descriptive statistics followed by in-depth study of test score interpretation, reliability, and validity. Also, the application of major tests used by clinical mental health/school counselors and school psychologists,... |
| CG531 | CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND VOCATIONAL APPRAISAL | Career development throughout the life span and individual career decision-making theories. Career assessment, appraisal, personality, and aptitude instruments and techniques for evaluating individuals relevant to choosing a career. Sources of career... |
| CG535 | GROUP PROCEDURES | Career development throughout the life span and individual career decision-making theories. Career assessment, appraisal, personality, and aptitude instruments and techniques for evaluating individuals relevant to choosing a career. Sources of career... |
| CG538 | SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAM DESIGN AND CONSULTATION | Counseling and guidance strategies for the school counselor that promote school and personal success and development in children and teenagers. Emphasis on the skills to assess students’ needs, design a program of comprehensive services, and coordina... |
| CG554 | COUNSELING CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS | This course is designed to help the beginning counselor identify issues that are relevant to children and adolescents in counseling. The course will cover developmental topics, application of common counseling approaches to working with children and... |
| CG556 | FAMILY AND RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING | This course in relationship and family counseling involves study in the structure, rules, roles, forms of communication, and other aspects of interpersonal dynamics. Ways of problem solving and negotiating will be studied.Prerequisites: CG 500 and CG... |
| CG557 | TRAUMA INFORMED COUNSELING | This course explores the rapidly expanding literature in the field of psychological trauma and attempts to delineate its common concerns, research basis, and practice guidelines. It presents the roles and responsibilities of counselors in interventio... |
| CG558 | EXPRESSIVE ARTS IN COUNSELING | This course explores the cultural and historical context of the expressive arts and healing and various modalities of artistic and creative expression. Students will experience the therapeutic effects of artistic intermodal expression within the cont... |
| CG561 | COUNSELING THEORIES | Systematic study of selected historical and contemporary theories of counseling and psychotherapy, including the nature of psychological disturbance, theoretical assumptions and concepts, and techniques for effecting therapeutic change. Emphasizes co... |
| CG562 | COUNSELING TECHNIQUES AND PRACTICE | Emphasis on the application of the theoretical principles involved in individual counseling, skill-building, and interviewing. Seminar format with role-playing, practical experience, basic interviewing, assessment, and counseling skills.Prerequisite... |
| CG563 | DIVERSITY ISSUES IN COUNSELING | Builds the personal and professional development of counseling practitioners through studying sociological, historical, philosophical, and psychological scholarship about the many cultures, races, ethnic groups, and other minority groups that constit... |
| CG571 | CLINICAL EVALUATION | Assessment procedures in diagnosis and treatment planning. Focuses on administering and interpreting individual and group standardized (and un-standardized) tests of mental ability and personality measurement; also, factors that relate to specific po... |
| CG572 | CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY | Designed to assist the counseling student in understanding psychological disorders, as conceptualized in the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders and other nosologies. Includes a thorough review of the major c... |
| CG573 | CLINICAL INTERVENTION, PREVENTION, AND ETHICS | Focuses on methods of intervention, including techniques used with diverse populations and situations. Emphasis on counselor ethics and legalities. Includes clinical supervision, program development, and consultation. Prerequisite: CG 562. |
| CG574 | CLINICAL TREATMENT METHODS | Focuses on diagnostic issues, case conceptualization, issues of diversity, developing and implementing a treatment plan, reporting and assessing progress of treatment, referral procedures, formulating timelines for treatment, and psychotropic medicat... |
| CG580 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN COUNSELING | In-depth study of a topic in workshop form. |
| CG580A | SP TP CLIN MENTL HLTH CNSELING | In-depth study of a topic in workshop form. |
| CG580B | SP TP CLIN MENTL HLTH CNSELING | In-depth study of a topic in workshop form. |
| CG580C | SP TP CLINCL MNT HLTH COUNSLNG | In-depth study of a topic in workshop form. |
| CG580D | SP TP CLIN MENTL HLTH CNSELING | In-depth study of a topic in workshop form. |
| CG580E | SP TP CLNL MNTL HLTH CNSELING | In-depth study of a topic in workshop form. |
| CG580F | SP TP CLIN MENTL HLTH CNSELING | In-depth study of a topic in workshop form. |
| CG580G | SP TP CLIN MENTL HLTH CNSELING | In-depth study of a topic in workshop form. |
| CG580H | SP TP CLIN MENTL HLTH CNSELING | In-depth study of a topic in workshop form. |
| CG580I | SP TP CLIN MENTL HLTH CNSELING | In-depth study of a topic in workshop form. |
| CG580J | SP TP CLIN MENTL HLTH CNSELING | In-depth study of a topic in workshop form. |
| CG580K | SP TP CLIN MENTL HLTH CNSELING | In-depth study of a topic in workshop form. |
| CG580L | SP TP CLIN MENTL HLTH CNSELING | In-depth study of a topic in workshop form. |
| CG581 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | Individual project under supervision. Approval of program coordinator and appropriate dean required. |
| CG581A | INDEPENDENT STUDY | Individual project under supervision. Approval of program coordinator and appropriate dean required. |
| CG581B | INDEPENDENT STUDY | Individual project under supervision. Approval of program coordinator and appropriate dean required. |
| CG581C | INDEPENDENT STUDY | Individual project under supervision. Approval of program coordinator and appropriate dean required. |
| CG588 | DOCTORAL STUDIES PREPARATION SEMINAR | Preparation for applying to doctoral programs. Mentoring on a research project, poster presentations of scholarship; mock interviews, networking and informational interviews; differences between counselor education, clinical psychology, counselor psy... |
| CG591 | SCHOOL COUNSELING PRACTICUM | Supervised, applied counseling laboratory experience prior to internship and within an appropriate setting. Requires 100 hours of placement experience, including a minimum of 40 hours of direct, individual counseling and 10 hours of group contact. In... |
| CG592 | CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING PRACTICUM | 100 placement hours (40 in direct client contact). Application of appropriate treatment modalities and understanding of service provision paradigms. Includes video and audio taping, individual and group supervision, case consultation, and legal and e... |
| CG596 | CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING INTERNSHIP | Prerequisite: CG 592.Prerequisite or corequisite: CG 563. Placement under supervision in an appropriate setting. During the Internship, students complete a total of 600 placement hours (240 in direct client contact, minimum 10 hours in group counseli... |
| CG596X | CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING INTERNSHIP EXTENSION | This elective course is optional and is available to students who have completed CG 596 with a total of 600 placement hours (240 in direct client contact) and want to maintain their CT status due to being hired or volunteering to function as a counse... |
| CG598 | SCHOOL COUNSELING INTERNSHIP | Prerequisite: CG 591.Prerequisite or corequisite: CG 563. Field placement under supervision. During the internship, students complete a total of 600 placement hours (240 hours in direct contact) counseling individual students and groups. Coursework o... |