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Curriculum

• PYY 765 Foundations of School Counseling
• PYY 749 Helping Relationship Skills
• PYY 748 Multicultural Counseling
• PYY 741 Professional Orientation and Ethics
• PYY 750 Counseling Theories
• PYY 763 Counseling Children and Adolescents
• PYY 769 Counselor Consultation and Collaboration
• PYY 751 Group Processes in Counseling
  and Therapy
• PYY 744 Career Development and Counseling
• PYY 767 School Counseling Program Management
• PYY 724 Life Span Development
• PYY 730 Methods of Research and Assessment
• PYY 723 Advanced Psychopathology
• PYY 771 Practicum in School Counseling
• PYY 773 Internship in School Counseling I
• PY774 Internship in School CounselingIII

Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete the USM School Counseling program will possess and be able to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, professional judgment, and dispositions needed by the school counselor KSDEE, 2015):

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the philosophical, historical, and social foundations of contemporary education and counseling practice; and preparation standards, professional credentialing practices, legal and ethical behaviors.
2. Possess the knowledge and skills to plan, organize, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive, developmental, results-based school counseling program.
3. Understand and demonstrate appropriate counseling skills to address the needs of individuals throughout the stages of human development, possess knowledge of related human behavior at all developmental levels and in multicultural contexts, and the impact of the stages and behaviors on learning and family dynamics.
4. Understand the major theories of individual and group counseling and demonstrate appropriate skills, techniques, and the use of technology in implementing individual and group counseling and classroom lessons design to promote academic, career and social/emotional development of learners.
5. Understand and demonstrate legal and ethical use of assessment, evaluation, and research in multicultural contexts.
6. Have knowledge of career development and apply amultii-tier approach for counseling all learners through their developmental stages.
7. Understand the significance and demonstrate the skills of teaming and consultation, collaboration, and coordination in developing programs to facilitate the positive interaction between learners and their environment. 
8. Understand social and cultural diversity across developmental stages and is able to identify appropriate counseling practices.