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103 CO 504 Psychopathology and Diagnosis Students acquire a working knowledge of the diagnosis of psychopathology, the DSM and the assessment of psychological and spiritual functioning. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the MA in Counseling program. Three hours. 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. 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 MA in Counseling (School Counseling) or Certificate in School Counseling program. Three hours. CO 507 Programs in School Counseling Focuses on the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of the comprehensive developmental school counseling program. Needs assessments and outcome plans based on assessments are stressed. Several key counseling topics such as conflict resolution, program development, diversity, crises intervention, and resiliency are addressed as they apply to programming issues. Prerequisites: Enrollment in MA in Counseling (School Counseling) or Certificate in School Counseling program; CO 506 Introduction to School Counseling. Pre or corequisite: CO 785 School Counseling Internship I. 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 Denver Counseling Center. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the MA in Counseling program. Pre or corequisite: CO 501 Theological Foundations of Counseling. Three hours. CO 511 Counseling Practicum Counseling Practicum provides counseling students with an initial experience in providing counseling services and introduces them to the profession of clinical counseling. Students participate in forty clock hours of direct service to clients in individual, family, and group formats. They also participate in individual or triatic 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 thirty clock hours of work toward state licensure requirements. This course is graded on an exceptional, satisfactory, marginal, and unsatisfactory basis as detailed in the Grading System section of Academic Procedures. Prerequisites: Enrollment in the MA in Counseling (Clinical Mental Health) program; CO 501 Theological Foundations of Counseling; CO 502 Counseling Theories; CO 504 Psychopathology and Diagnosis; CO 510 Counseling Foundations. Pre or corequisites: CO 615 Professional Orientation; eligibility as determined by the Counseling Division; instruction permission. Three credits.