| COUN 6780 | Process and Practice of Group Counseling (3-0-3)| This course is designed to allow the student to study and to experience counseling groups as theory, content, process, and technique. The class is conducted both as a didactic group and as a group laboratory.
| COUN 6800 | Assessment, Intervention and Diagnosis in Counseling (3-0-3) | This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to develop a knowledge base regarding the nomenclature and criteria imperative in the analysis and diagnosis of mental disorders. The student will also have an opportunity to become acquainted with treatment suggestions and crises intervention techniques.
| COUN 6820 | Administration and Consultation in Counseling (3-0-3) | This is a didactic/experiential course providing beginning counselors with the knowledge necessary to: 1) develop and administer a comprehensive counseling
program in school or community settings, and 2) develop the skills necessary to
function as a consultant in psycho-educational and organizational settings.
| COUN 6840 | Introduction to Addictions Counseling (3-0-3) | This course is specifically designed to function as a specialty course in the graduate counselor training program. The course experience provides an overview of the strategies, methods, and knowledge necessary for the effective identification and treatment of a broad range of addictive behaviors. The course will examine the biological, psychological, sociological, and behavioral components of addiction. As such, the course will focus on such issues as drug effects, assessment and diagnosis, counseling interventions, effects on family functioning and family interventions, relapse prevention, change maintenance strategies, primary prevention programming, and the related research.
| COUN 6860 | Counseling Children and Adolescents (3-0-3) | This course has been specifically designed for graduate students specializing in the school counseling track and for those students in the community counseling
specialty who hold a professional interest in working extensively with children and adolescents in a variety of community practice settings. The course is designed to address both theoretical and practice aspects of counseling children. The course will synthesize concepts from research and practice and will involve students in current methods for helping children and adolescents with specific developmental, social, or behavioral problems. Special issues relative to counseling exceptional children, as well as children attempting to contend with divorce, death, abuse, satanic cults, homelessness, alcoholism, and AIDS will also be addressed.
| COUN 6880 | Counseling Practicum (3-0-3) | This course is designed to function as the student's first clinical skills-building experience with particular emphasis on helping each student develop his/her therapeutic skills with a range of client presenting concerns. Students are required to complete a supervised clinical experience that totals a minimum of 100 clock hours.
| COUN 6900 | Counseling Internship (3-0-3) | This is the Capstone course for the M.Ed. program in counseling. Counseling | Augusta State University Catalog | 258
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