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89 CO 507 Programs in School Counseling Focuses on the development, management, and evaluation of comprehensive developmental school counseling programs. Needs assessments and outcome plans based on assessment are stressed. Several key counseling topics such as conflict resolution, violence prevention, diversity, stress management, loss, substance abuse, and resiliency are addressed as they apply to programming issues. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the MA in Counseling (School Counseling concentration) or School Counseling Certificate program; CO 506 Introduction to School Counseling; pre- or corequisite: CO 785 School Counseling Internship I; CO 786 School Counseling Internship Continuation, or CO 787 School Counseling Internship II. Offered fall semesters. Three hours. CO 510 Counseling Foundations Introduces counseling licensure students to the counseling field, the community counseling model, empathy training, other foundational counseling skills, counseling techniques and counseling ethics. Orients the student to CO 511 Counseling Practicum in which students will conduct counseling sessions with clients in the on-campus Shepherd's Gate Clinic. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the MA in Counseling (Clinical Mental Health or School Counseling) program. Offered fall and spring semesters. Three hours. CO 511 Counseling Practicum Provides counseling students with an initial experience in providing counseling services and introduces them to the profession of Christian counseling. Students participate in forty clock hours of direct service to clients in individual, family, and group formats. They also participate in individual and group supervision in which they review video recordings of their counseling sessions for discussion and evaluation. Student performance is monitored throughout the course and includes a formal evaluation at the end of the course. The practicum course totals at least one hundred clock hours of work toward state licensure requirements. This course is graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Prerequisites: CO 502 Counseling Theories, CO 510 Counseling Foundations; pre- or corequisite: CO 504 Psychopathology and Diagnosis; and enrollment in the MA in Counseling (Clinical Mental Health or School Counseling) program. Offered fall and spring semesters. Two or three hours. CO 524 Counseling in the Hispanic Community Since the cultural characteristics of Hispanics make the counseling process unique in many ways, this course explores the key differences in counseling Hispanics and how to deal effectively with those differences. Two hours. CO 525 Career Development and Assessment Begins with an exploration of the theology of work and moves to an examination of career selection and career development theories. Students learn about career assessment tools, occupational information sources and systems, as well as lifestyle and career decision-making. This course equips the student with the skill of critiquing lifestyle from a biblical viewpoint. Offered fall and spring semesters. Three hours. CO 526 Therapeutic Communication This course is designed to help students develop the facilitative skills that form the basis of therapeutic communication in both formal and informal counseling settings. The focus is on empathy as a way of being, and as the core skill in relating to both individuals and couples. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the MA in Counseling Ministries, MA in Chaplaincy, MDiv program with a concentration in chaplaincy or pastoral care and counseling, or instructor permission. Offered fall and spring semesters. Two hours.