K. Curricular experiences and demonstrated knowledge in each of the eight common core areas are required of all students in program. The eight common-core areas follow.
All three Counseling Programs incorporate the eight common core-areas
as required. To review all relevant course syllabi mentioned in this
section, click here. To review the matrix which further illustrates how courses meet relevant CACREP standards, click here.
Standards and the matrix for School Counseling are available here, and standards and the matrix for the Mental Health program are here.
1. PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY – studies that provide an understanding of all aspects of professional functioning:
In addition to the broad professional identity issues contained
in COUN 504
- Philosophical Foundations of Counseling, each of the three
counseling programs at Marywood University has a course(s) that focuses
on
the content related to Professional Identity. For mental
health counselors, the course is COUN 507 Principles and Practices of
the
Mental Health Counselor. In School Counseling programs, there are
two courses. The first is COUN 546 Organization and Administration
of Counseling Services. For the elementary school counselor the course
is COUN 521 Counselor Education Seminar – Elementary and for
secondary school counseling, the course is COUN 572 Counselor Education
Seminar – Secondary. Other courses listed address this area in a
secondary manner.
a. history and philosophy of the counseling profession, including significant factors and events;
COUN 504 - Philosophical Foundations of Counseling
COUN 505 - Career Development I
COUN 507 - Principles and Practices of Mental Health Counseling (Mental Health Counseling)
COUN 525 - Theories of Counseling
COUN 546 - Organization and Administration of Counseling Services (School Counseling)
COUN 521/572 - Counselor Education Seminar-Elementary/Secondary (School Counseling)
COUN 524A,B,C - Internship in Secondary/Elementary
School Counseling
PSYC 532 - Child Psychopathology
COUN 574 - Family Counseling
b. professional roles, functions, and relationships with other human service providers;
COUN 504 - Philosophical Foundations of Counseling
COUN 546 - Organization and Administration of Counseling Services (School Counseling)
COUN 521/572 - Counselor Education Seminar-Elementary/Secondary (School Counseling)
COUN 507 - Principles and Practices of Mental Health Counseling (Mental Health Counseling)
COUN 553A,B,C, D - Internship in
Mental Health Counseling
c. technological competence and computer literacy.
COUN 505 - Career Development I
d. professional organizations,
primarily ACA, its divisions, branches and affiliates, including
membership benefits, activities, services to members, and current
emphases;
COUN 504 - Philosophical Foundations of Counseling
COUN 507 - Principles and Practices of Mental Health Counseling (Mental Health Counseling)
COUN 553A,B,C, D - Internship in
Mental Health Counseling
e. professional credentialing,
including certification, licensure, and accreditation practices and
standards, and the effects of public policy on these issues;
COUN 504 - Philosophical Foundations of Counseling
COUN 507 - Principles and Practices of Mental Health Counseling (Mental Health Counseling)
COUN 553A,B,C, D - Internship in
Mental Health Counseling
f. public and private policy
processes, including the role of the professional counselor in
advocating on behalf of the profession;
COUN 507 - Principles and Practices of Mental Health Counseling (Mental Health Counseling)
COUN 524A,B,C - Internship in Secondary/Elementary
School Counseling
COUN 553A,B,C, D - Internship in
Mental Health Counseling
g. advocacy processes needed to
address institutional and social barriers that impede access, equity,
and success of clients; and
COUN 504 - Philosophical Foundations of Counseling
COUN 505 - Career Development I
COUN 532 - Professional Issues in Multicultural Counseling
COUN 507 - Principles and Practices of Mental Health Counseling (Mental Health Counseling)
COUN 523/545 - Applied Practices II
COUN 524A,B,C - Internship in Secondary/Elementary
School Counseling
h.
ethical standards of ACA and related entities, and applications of
ethical and legal considerations in professional counseling.
COUN 530 - Ethics and Professional
Conduct in Counseling and Psychotherapy
COUN 523/545 - Applied Practices II
COUN 524A,B,C - Internship in Secondary/Elementary
School Counseling
COUN 553A,B,C, D - Internship in
Mental Health Counseling
PSYC 532 - Child Psychopathology
COUN 574 - Family Counseling
Summary: Due to Marywood
University’s commitment to the development of a strong professional
orientation, this standard is addressed in general throughout the
entire program, and specifically in three required courses for each
program.
2. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY - studies that
provide an understanding of the cultural context of relationships,
issues and trends in a multicultural and diverse society related
to such factors as culture, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender,
sexual orientation, mental and physical characteristics, education,
family values, religious and spiritual values, socioeconomic
status and unique characteristics of individuals, couples,
families, ethnic groups, and communities including all of
the following:
Knowledge, skills and awareness pertaining to this core area are the foundation COUN 532
Multicultural Issues for Professional Counselors. Thus the primary course that focuses on this
core area is COUN 532
Multicultural Issues for Professional Counselors. This course content is
incorporated in other courses in a secondary manner.
a. multicultural and pluralistic trends, including
characteristics and concerns
between and within diverse groups nationally and internationally;
COUN 532 - Multicultural Issues for Professional Counselors
PSYC 532 Child Psychopathology
COUN 574 Family Counseling
b. attitudes, beliefs, understandings, and acculturative
experiences, including specific experiential learning activities;
COUN 532 - Multicultural Issues for Professional Counselors
COUN 561 Introduction to Psychological Testing
COUN 574 Family Counseling
c. individual, couple, family, group, and community
strategies for working with diverse populations and ethnic
groups;
COUN 532 - Multicultural Issues for Professional Counselors
COUN 523/545 - Applied Practices II
COUN 524A,B,C - Internship in Secondary/Elementary
School Counseling
PSYC 532 Child Psychopathology
COUN 561 Introduction to Psychological Testing
COUN 574 Family Counseling
d. counselors’ roles in social justice, advocacy
and conflict resolution, cultural self-awareness, the nature
of biases, prejudices, processes of intentional and unintentional
oppression and discrimination, and other culturally supported
behaviors that are detrimental to the growth of the human
spirit, mind, or body;
COUN 532 - Multicultural Issues for Professional Counselors
PSYC 514 Child Psychopathology
e. theories of multicultural counseling, theories of development, and multicultural competencies
COUN 532 -
Multicultural Issues for Professional Counselors
PSYC 514 - Human Development
f. ethical and legal considerations.
COUN 532 -
Multicultural Issues for Professional Counselors
COUN 530 - Ethics and Professional
Conduct in Counseling and Psychotherapy
COUN 524A,B,C - Internship in Secondary/Elementary
School Counseling
COUN 553A,B,C, D - Internship in
Mental Health Counseling
COUN 574 Family Counseling
Summary: Because living
responsibly in a diverse and interdependent world is at the heart of
the Marywood University mission statement, and is woven intro the
fabric of the Marywood environment, this core area permeates all three
program tracks.
3.
HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT - studies that provide an understanding of
the nature and needs of individuals at all developmental levels,
including all of the following
For all counseling programs, the required course that focuses on the
content of human growth and development is
Psyc 514, Human Development. As indicated by the
matrix, this area is also reflected by other courses in a
secondary manner.
a. theories of individual and family development
and transitions across the life-span;
COUN 504 - Philosophical Foundations of Counseling
COUN 538 Psychopharmacology
PSYC 532 Child Psychopathology
PSYC 514 - Human
Development
b. theories of learning and personality development;
COUN 504 - Philosophical Foundations of Counseling
PSYC 514 - Human
Development
c. human behavior including an understanding of
developmental crises, disability, exceptional behavior, addictive
behavior, psychopathology, and situational and environmental
factors that affect both normal and abnormal behavior;
PSYC 514 - Human
Development
d. strategies for facilitating optimum development
over the life-span; and
PSYC 514 - Human
Development
e. ethical and legal considerations.
COUN 530 - Ethics and Professional
Conduct in Counseling and Psychotherapy
Summary: The human growth
and development core area is deemed an essential area that
is interrelated into many of Marywood University’s
Counseling Program courses. It is understood that this
knowledge of human development becomes the foundation for skills, conceptualization ability and application of coursework to
practice in field experiences necessary for counselor education.
4. CAREER DEVELOPMENT-studies that provide an
understanding of career development and related life factors, including all of the following:
COUN 505 Career Development is the primary course in the Counseling
Programs of Marywood University. As such it addresses the career
and lifestyle development area and emphasizes ethical
considerations specific to this topic.
a. career development theories and decision-making models;
COUN 505 - Career Development I
b. career,
avocational, educational, occupational and labor market information resources,
visual and print media, computer-based career information systems, and other
electronic career information systems;
COUN 505 - Career Development I
COUN 561 Introduction to Psychological Testing
c. career development
program planning, organization, implementation, administration, and evaluation;
COUN 505 - Career Development I
d. interrelationships
among and between work, family, and other life roles and factors including the
role of diversity and gender in career development;
COUN 505 - Career Development I
PSYC 532 Child Psychopathology
COUN 524A,B,C - Internship in Secondary/Elementary
School Counseling
COUN 574 Family Counseling
e. career and
educational planning, placement, follow-up, and evaluation;
COUN 505 - Career Development I
COUN 524A,B,C - Internship in Secondary/Elementary
School Counseling
f. assessment instruments and techniques that are relevant to career planning
and decision making;
COUN 505 - Career Development I
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
COUN 553A,B,C, D - Internship in
Mental Health Counseling
COUN 574 Family Counseling
g. technology-based career development applications and strategies, including
computer-assisted career guidance and information systems and
appropriate world-wide web sites;
COUN 505 - Career Development I
h. career counseling processes, techniques, and resources, including those
applicable to specific populations; and
COUN 505 - Career Development I
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
i. ethical and legal considerations.
COUN 524A,B,C - Internship in Secondary/Elementary
School Counseling
Summary: Marywood Faculty
believe that the area of career and lifestyle development are
an integral part of a comprehensive guidance program and as such
influence one required course COUN 505 Career Development I and one
elective to fully address this
content area.
5. HELPING RELATIONSHIPS - studies
that provide an understanding of counseling and consultation processes,
including all of the following:
Primary courses that focus on this core area for all three counseling
programs are: COUN 518 Applied Practice I, COUN 544,
Techniques of Individual Counseling, COUN 543 Group
Counseling, COUN 505 Career Development I, COUN 532
-
Multicultural Issues for Professional Counselors and COUN 523 Applied
Practice II and internship
a. counselor and consultant characteristics
and behaviors that influence helping processes including age, gender, and
ethnic differences, verbal and nonverbal behaviors and personal
characteristics, orientations, and skills;
COUN 504 - Philosophical Foundations of Counseling
COUN 518 - Applied Practices I
COUN 532 -
Multicultural Issues for Professional Counselors
COUN 524A,B,C - Internship in Secondary/Elementary
School Counseling
COUN 523/545 - Applied Practice II
COUN 544, Techniques of Individual Counseling,
COUN 553A,B,C, D - Internship in
Mental Health Counseling
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
PSYC 532 Child Psychopathology
COUN 574 Family Counseling
b. an understanding of essential
interviewing and counseling skills so that the student is able to develop a therapeutic
relationship, establish appropriate counseling goals, design intervention
strategies, evaluate client outcome, and successfully terminate the
counselor-client relationship. Studies will also facilitate student
self-awareness so that the counselor-client relationship is therapeutic and the
counselor maintains appropriate professional boundaries;
COUN 504 - Philosophical Foundations of Counseling
COUN 518 - Applied Practices I
COUN 523/545 - Applied Practice II
COUN 544, Techniques of Individual Counseling,
COUN 524A,B,C - Internship in Secondary/Elementary
School Counseling
COUN 553A,B,C, D - Internship in
Mental Health Counseling
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
PSYC 532 Child Psychopathology
c. counseling theories that provide the
student with a consistent model(s) to conceptualize client presentation and
select appropriate counseling interventions. Student experiences should
include an examination of the historical development of counseling theories, an
exploration of affective, behavioral, and cognitive theories, and an
opportunity to apply the theoretical material to case studies. Students
will also be exposed to models of counseling that are consistent with current
professional research and practice in the field so that they can begin to
develop a personal model of counseling;
COUN 525 - Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy
COUN 523/545 - Applied Practice II
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
PSYC 532 - Child Psychopathology
COUN 574 - Family Counseling
d. a systems perspective that
provides an understanding of family and other systems theories and major models
of family and related interventions. Students will be exposed to a
rationale for selecting family and other systems theories as appropriate
modalities for family assessment and counseling;
COUN 523/545 - Applied Practice II
COUN 524A,B,C - Internship in Secondary/Elementary
School Counseling
COUN 553A,B,C, D - Internship in
Mental Health Counseling
PSYC 532 - Child Psychopathology
COUN 574 - Family Counseling
e. a general framework for understanding
and practicing. Student experiences should include an examination of the
historical development of consultation, an exploration of the stages of
consultation and the major models of consultation, and an opportunity to apply
the theoretical material to case presentations. Students will begin to
develop a personal model of consultation;
COUN 525 - Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy
COUN 544 - Techniques of Individual Counseling,
PSYC 532 - Child Psychopathology
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
f. integration of technological strategies
and applications within counseling and consultation processes; and
COUN 524A,B,C - Internship in Secondary/Elementary
School Counseling
PSYC 532 - Child Psychopathology
g. ethical and legal considerations.
COUN 530 - Ethics and Professional
Conduct in Counseling and Psychotherapy
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
COUN 524A,B,C - Internship in Secondary/Elementary
School Counseling
Summary: Counseling skills
which comprise the Helping Relationship core area are an extremely
important part of the Counseling
Programs. Students are exposed to skill based material in a
cumulative
manner throughout the entire program which cumulates in the
Practicum
and Internship experience under supervision of both faculty
and site supervisors. We strive to prepare our students to
be both
effective counselors and ethical practitioners.
6. GROUP WORK -
studies that provide both theoretical and experiential understandings of group
purpose, development, dynamics, counseling theories, group counseling
methods and skills, and other group approaches, including all of the following:
After a basic introduction in
COUN 504 - Philosophical Foundations of Counseling, COUN 543 - Group Process in
Counseling is
the primary course that focus on the content area of Group
Work. Other areas applicable to this core area are presented in the
Practicum and Internship experiences. The Group Supervision
Seminar of both practicum and internship exposes students to a
wide variety of additional group experience.
a. principles of group
dynamics, including group process components, developmental stage theories,
group members’ roles and behaviors, and therapeutic factors of group work;
COUN 504 - Philosophical Foundations of Counseling
COUN 543 - Group Process in
Counseling
b. group leadership styles and approaches,
including characteristics of various types of group leaders and leadership
styles;
COUN 543 - Group Process in
Counseling
c. theories of group counseling, including
commonalties, distinguishing characteristics, and pertinent research and
literature;
COUN 543 - Group Process in
Counseling
d. group counseling methods,
including group counselor orientations and behaviors, appropriate selection
criteria and methods, and methods of evaluation of effectiveness;
COUN 543 - Group Process in
Counseling
COUN 523/545 - Applied Practice II
e. approaches used for other types of group
work, including task groups, psychoeducational groups, and therapy groups;
COUN 543 - Group Process in
Counseling
COUN 523/545 - Applied Practice II
f. professional preparation standards for
group leaders; and
COUN 543 - Group Process in
Counseling
g. ethical and legal considerations.
COUN 543 - Group Process in
Counseling
Summary: Students of
Marywood University’s Counseling Programs are introduced early to
basic concepts and structures of group counseling in COUN 504 - Philosophical Foundations of Counseling, and receive more
in depth training and experience in counseling theory, techniques
and leadership skills in COUN 543 - Group Processes in
Counseling. In addition, practicum and internship
experiences afford students additional applied experience.
7. ASSESSMENT - studies that provide an understanding of
individual and group approaches to assessment and evaluation, including all of
the following:
Due to the number of faculty in the Counseling & Psychology
Department, there are a substantial number of assessment courses
available to counseling students either as part of their required
coursework, or as electives.
COUN 561 Introduction to
Psychological Testing is required
of all three counseling program tracks; while PSY 562 Assessment
of Adult Personality & Psychopathology, PSY 563
Socio-emotional Assessment of Children & Adolescents and PSY
562 Individual Intelligence Testing may be taken as electives
by mental health counseling students.
a. historical perspectives concerning the nature and
meaning of assessment;
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
b. basic concepts of standardized and non standardized
testing and other assessment techniques
including norm-referenced and criterion-referenced assessment, environmental
assessment, performance assessment, individual and group test and inventory methods,
behavioral observations, and computer-managed and computer-assisted methods;
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
c. statistical concepts, including scales of
measurement, measures of central tendency, indices of variability, shapes and
types of distributions, and correlations;
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
d. reliability (i.e., theory of measurement error,
models of reliability, and the use of reliability information);
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
e. validity (i.e., evidence of validity, types of validity,
and the relationship between reliability and validity;
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
f. age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, language,
disability, culture, spirituality, and other factors related to the assessment and
evaluation of individuals, groups, and specific populations;
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
COUN 505 - Career Development I
g. strategies for selecting, administering, and interpreting
assessment and evaluation instruments and techniques in counseling;
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
h. an understanding of general principles and methods of case
conceptualization, assessment, and/or
diagnoses of mental and emotional status; and
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
i. ethical and legal considerations.
COUN 561 - Introduction to
Psychological Testing
8. RESEARCH AND
PROGRAM EVALUATION - studies that provide an understanding of research methods,
statistical analysis, needs assessment, and program evaluation, including all
of the following:
EDUC 501 - Research Theory is
the
primary courses that focus on the content area of research and
program evaluation for the School and Mental Health Counseling programs
respectively. COUN 561 Introduction to
Psychological Testing lends
supplemental support in terms of related statistical content.
a. the importance of
research and opportunities and difficulties in conducting research in the
counseling profession,
EDUC 501 - Research Theory (School Counseling)
PSY 501 - Research Methods (Mental Health)
b. research
methods such as qualitative, quantitative, single-case designs, action
research, and outcome-based research;
EDUC 501 - Research Theory (School Counseling)
PSY 501 - Research Methods (Mental Health)
c. use of technology
and statistical methods in conducting research and program evaluation, assuming
basic computer literacy;
EDUC 501 - Research Theory (School Counseling)
PSY 501 - Research Methods (Mental Health)
d. principles,
models, and applications of needs assessment, program evaluation, and use of findings
to effect program modifications;
EDUC 501 - Research Theory (School Counseling)
PSY 501 - Research Methods (Mental Health)
e. use of research to
improve counseling effectiveness; and
EDUC 501 - Research Theory (School Counseling)
PSY 501 - Research Methods (Mental Health)
f. ethical and legal
considerations.
EDUC 501 - Research Theory (School Counseling)
PSY 501 - Research Methods (Mental Health)
COUN 530 - Ethics and Professional
Conduct in Counseling and Psychotherapy
