EDCE 7245 - Counseling Children and Adolescents

• Become familiar with professional journals and the research used in counseling children.
• Clearly understand that there are different approaches or ways to construct or implement treatment and learn some of the approaches to developing treatment plans and interventions.
• Gain greater understanding of counseling needs and interventions to be used with children of under-represented groups.
• Gain knowledge and understanding of various individual, family, and group interventions to implement in school and agency settings.
• Gain understanding of several family counseling approaches.
• Gain understanding of the nature of child abuse and appropriate prevention, reporting, referral, and interventions for use with this population.
• Learn appropriate assessment methods or procedures.
• Recognize the importance of careful consideration of other important factors such as developmental stages, environmental influences, biological or genetic contributions, socioeconomic influences, and culture.
• Understand each disorder’s causal factors and prevention.
• Understand how each disorder is defined and its diagnostic or clinical features and comorbid conditions.
• Understand implications for practice or treatment.
• Understand school and family perspectives.
• Understand the application of major counseling theories and techniques with children.