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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN COUNSELING
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN COUNSELING
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
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Designed for both employed and private practice counselors, whose clients come from the general population.
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REQUIREMENTS:
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- Three years fulltime postgraduate study or the equivalent 54 semester/81 quarter credits.
- A dissertation based upon original research, orally defended before the Doctoral Committee as a whole.
- An Annotated Bibliography and a Critical Analysis of a current problem, both in the field of concentration.
- 25%-50% concentration from the core curriculum.
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PREREQUISITES:
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- A master degree in this field; a recognized license in the field; certified professional membership in the field; or at least 75% of degree requirements completed, including any laboratory, practicum, clinical requirements, or licensure qualifications.
- Articulation of an original topic of research, including acceptable methodology, and related to the specific degree title.
- An awareness of the objectives of external studies; the ability to achieve personal objectives; and a propensity for study by distance learning.
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INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS:
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DISTANCE EDUCATION
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CURRICULUM:
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(CORE REQUIREMENTS)
Advanced Marriage and Family Counseling
Career Development
Advanced Counseling Theory and Practice
Helping Relationships
Group Applications
Undestanding and Counseling Adolescents
Practicum in Group Counseling
Vocational Development and Job Placement
Advanced Measurement
Research Methodology
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COURSE OUTLINES / SYLLABI
1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 640
Title: Advanced Marriage and Family Counseling
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will acquire knowledge about all current methods of research and data analyses in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: This workshop will be a didactic-experiential course for advanced students and will focus on the attainment of theoretical competence as well as on the development of therapeutic skills. It will examine an in-depth study on the three major approaches used today in marriage and family counseling: psychoanalytic (object-relations), TA-Gestalt and systems. There will be extensive use of audio-visual material, role playing and live interviews.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 641
Title: Career Development
1.4 Recommended Text List:
Applying Career Develpment Theory, 1st ed., 1992, Sharf
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Course Objectives: Student will exhibit advance dknowledge and understanding in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: Focuses on the tools and techniques that counselors utilize in order to assist individuals in developing educational and vocational plans. The course emphasizes the practical individual and group methodologies used to help clients analyze their strengths, discover educational and occupational resource materals and develop specific educational and vocational plans. The informal, as well as the formal, institutionalized social areas for assistance in career development are reviewed and evaluated.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 642
Title: Advanced counseling Theory and Practice
1.4 Recommended Text List:
The counselilng Process, 3rd ed., Lewis Patterson, Sheldon Eisenberg
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Course Objectives: Student will exhibit advanced knowledge and understanding in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: In-depth study and laboratory experiences in selected modes of counseling. In a given semester, this course focuses upon one approach to counseling and extends the student's understanding of its theoretical basis and develops competence in its techniques. The approaches include (a) behavioral; (b) phenomenological; (c) psychoanalytic; (d) rationale-emotive; (e) reality therapy; (f) transactional analysis; (g) selected areas to be designated.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 643
Title: Advanced Counseling Theory and Practice
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will acquire knowledge about the current methods of helping relationships.
- Course Description: Fundamental principles of providing a helping relationship through counseling and interviewing are integrated in a conceptual framework for subsequent professional studies in counseling and guidance. Emphasis is placed upon personal and professional development through skills training in techniques.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 644
Title: Group Applications
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Making Groups Work: A guide for Group Leadership, Rodney W. Napier, Matti K. Gershenfeld
- Behavior in Small Groups, Alfred D. Benjamin
- Groups: Theory and Experience, 4th ed., Rodney w. Napier, Matti Gershenfeld
- Critical Incidents in Group Therapy, 1st ed., 1987, Donigian
- Group Counseling, 2nd ed., 1994, Jacobs
- Advanced Group Leadership, 1st ed., 1994, A.W. Galahad, Kottler
- Theory & Practice Group Psychotherapy, 3rd ed., 1985, Harper, Yalom
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Course Objectives: Student will be able to critically analyze and solve problems in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: Various group applications which may be utilized by personnel to facilitate the maximum development of individuals including group guidance, discussion groups, meeting groups, and peer groups procedures along with practice in conducting each group studied.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 645
Title: Understanding and Counseling Adolescents
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will know current methods of understanding and counseling adolescents.
- Course Description: Contemporary adolescence with special consideration of theories of psycho-social, congnitive, emotional and moral development, combined with selective readings on adolescent problems and evaluating of the implications of these ideas for developing more effective approaches in working with adolescent youth.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 646
Title: Practicum in Group Counseling
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will be able to critically analyze and solve problems in group counseling.
- Course Description: The course provides experience in theories, procedures and research in group counseling. In addition, each candidate is to meet regularly with small groups of subjects of his/her selection and make tape recordings and/or records of group and individual behavior. Members will meet in seminar to analyze developments in their groups, problems of group leadership and techniques for adjustment of individuals through group interaction.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 647
Title: Vocational development and Job Placement
1.4 Recommended Text List:
Research in Education, 7th ed., 1993, Best
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Course Objectives: Student will acqurie knowledge about all current methods of vocational development and job placement.
- Course Description: The course focuses on knowledge and skills necessary to provide placement services for persons with disabilities. Labor market trends and job analysis are used to identify available and appropriate jobs for various disability groups. Job modification and job restructuring are explored as tools for altering existing jobs for the disabled; job-seeking and job-holding skills prepare the client for placement and placement planning and follow-up facilitate actual placement and maintenance of jobs in the community.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 648
Title: Advanced Measurement
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will acquire knowledge about all current methods of diagnostic assessment.
- Course Description: This course is designed to integrate interviewing and appraisal techniques. Diagnostic assesment will involve the selection, administration, scoring and interpretation of various types of tests used in a counseling setting. Skills in test interpretation and counseling techniques will be developed thorugh role-playing, critiquing of actual counseling sessions and peer-group supervision.
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