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CO 505 Groups in Counseling Principles and practices of group therapy are studied as they relate to church life and ministry as well as to professional practice. The major theories form the basis of investigation into how group counseling can be used by counselors to promote growth and healing. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the MA in Counseling or MA in Counseling Ministries program. Offered fall and spring semesters. Three hours. CO 506 Introduction to School Counseling Examines the history, philosophy, and trends of school counseling. Professional identity issues of school counselors will be explored, including leadership, advocacy, counseling, and consulting roles in the school system. Additionally, school counseling services are examined, including assessment, individual, group, family, and career counseling and consulting. Prevention and intervention strategies, programming, and ethical/legal guidelines are examined. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the MA in Counseling program with a concentration in school counseling. Offered spring semesters. Two hours. 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: 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 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 program. Offered fall and spring semesters. 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, 89