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D. Syllabi are distributed at the beginning of each curricular experience, are available for review by all enrolled or prospective students, and include all of the following:
1. Content areas.
2. Knowledge and skill outcomes.
3. Methods of instruction.
4. Required text(s) and/or reading(s).
5. Student performance evaluation criteria and procedures.
RESPONSE: EKU provides all faculty with a specific policy on syllabi that includes a template linked here. This policy requires syllabi to include a course description, texts required for the course, expected student learning outcomes, evaluation methods, course requirements, course outline and other information. Beyond this, methods of instruction such as whether it will be a lecture class, an experiential class, a web based or web enhanced class or any other nuance of how instruction will be accomplished is covered within these different parts of the syllabi and is often listed in the class schedule system. All syllabi are available for review here. Evidence exists of the use and infusion of current counseling-related research in teaching practice among program faculty and students.
RESPONSE: Faculty use continually reviewed text books that are expected to be as up to date as possible. This is reviewed by other faculty in peer review to assure this is the case. These peer reviews of syllabi are linked here. Faculty often uses related readings or other ancillary materials reflecting the newest information relevant to the topic. Faculty conduct research in the areas they teach and often present and publish on these areas as evidenced by scholarship listed in their VITAs linked here.
E. Evidence exists of the use and infusion of technology in program delivery and technology’s impact on the counseling profession.
RESPONSE:All courses taught on campus are taught in rooms with the latest teaching technologies available. Computer stations for instruction are provided in each classroom with docking station, sound systems, projection systems, docking cameras, DVDs, and item response systems are available. All faculty are issued laptops that dock with these systems throughout the college and beyond. Courses are managed through BlackBoardContent Management system allowing web enhancement of every course and a stable monitored and supported platform for web based courses. Rooms for counseling experiential learning are provided with one way mirrors, video recording, and communication capabilities.
F. Common core curricular experiences and demonstrated knowledge in each of the eight common core curricular areas are required of all students in the program.
RESPONSE: All items under Standard G1-8 will be addressed by a Standards Tableand Standards Matrix.The Standards Table is a list of what standard is particularly addressed in what course. The Standards Matrix has the specific standards down the vertical axis for reference and an individual list of syllabi across the horizontal axis for reference. An X is used to mark the spot on the matrix where the Standard is addressed by a specific course. By hovering on the specific X you will see what specific SLOs are used in this course to address this standard. The listed syllabi on the horizontal axis and the listed standards on the vertical axis are hyperlinked to the appropriate document showing the details of these items.
- PROFESSIONAL ORIENTATION AND ETHICAL PRACTICE—studies that provide an understanding of all of the following aspects of professional functioning:
Standards Table and Standards Matrix
a. history and philosophy of the counseling profession;
b. professional roles, functions, and relationships with other human service providers, including strategies for interagency/interorganization collaboration and communications;
c. counselors’ roles and responsibilities as members of an interdisciplinary emergency management response team during a local, regional, or national crisis, disaster or other trauma-causing event;
d. self-care strategies appropriate to the counselor role;
e. counseling supervision models, practices, and processes;
f. professional organizations, including membership benefits, activities, services to members, and current issues;
g. professional credentialing, including certification, licensure, and accreditation practices and standards, and the effects of public policy on these issues;
h. the role and process of the professional counselor advocating on behalf of the profession;
i. advocacy processes needed to address institutional and social barriers that impede access, equity, and success for clients; and
j. ethical standards of professional organizations and credentialing bodies, and applications of ethical and legal considerations in professional counseling.
2. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY—studies that provide an understanding of the cultural context of relationships, issues, and trends in a multicultural society, including all of the following:
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a. multicultural and pluralistic trends, including characteristics and concerns within and among diverse groups nationally and internationally;
b. attitudes, beliefs, understandings, and acculturative experiences, including specific experiential learning activities designed to foster students’ understanding of self and culturally diverse clients;
c. theories of multicultural counseling, identity development, and social justice;
d. individual, couple, family, group, and community strategies for working with and advocating for diverse populations, including multicultural competencies;
e. counselors’ roles in developing cultural self-awareness, promoting cultural social justice, advocacy and conflict resolution, and other culturally supported behaviors that promote optimal wellness and growth of the human spirit, mind, or body; and
f. counselors’ roles in eliminating biases, prejudices, and processes of intentional and unintentional oppression and discrimination.
3. HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT—studies that provide an understanding of the nature and needs of persons at all developmental levels and in multicultural contexts, including all of the following:
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a. theories of individual and family development and transitions across the life span;
b. theories of learning and personality development, including current understandings about neurobiological behavior;
c. effects of crises, disasters, and other trauma-causing events on persons of all ages;
d. theories and models of individual, cultural, couple, family, and community resilience;
e a general framework for understanding exceptional abilities and strategies for differentiated interventions;
f. human behavior, including an understanding of developmental crises, disability, psychopathology, and situational and environmental factors that affect both normal and abnormal behavior;
g. theories and etiology of addictions and addictive behaviors, including strategies for prevention, intervention, and treatment; and
h. theories for facilitating optimal development and wellness over the life span.
4. CAREER DEVELOPMENT—studies that provide an understanding of career development and related life factors, including all of the following:
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a. career development theories and decision-making models;
b. career, avocational, educational, occupational and labor market information resources, and career information systems;
c. career development program planning, organization, implementation, administration, and evaluation;
d. interrelationships among and between work, family, and other life roles and factors, including the role of multicultural issues in career development;
e. career and educational planning, placement, follow-up, and evaluation;
f. assessment instruments and techniques relevant to career planning and decision making; and
g. career counseling processes, techniques, and resources, including those applicable to specific populations in a global economy.
5. HELPING RELATIONSHIPS—studies that provide an understanding of the counseling process in a multicultural society, including all of the following:
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a. an orientation to wellness and prevention as desired counseling goals;
b. counselor characteristics and behaviors that influence helping processes;
c. essential interviewing and counseling skills;
d. counseling theories that provide the student with models to conceptualize client presentation and that help the student select appropriate counseling interventions. Students will be exposed to models of counseling that are consistent with current professional research and practice in the field so they begin to develop a personal model of counseling;
e. a systems perspective that provides an understanding of family and other systems theories and major models of family and related interventions;
f. a general framework for understanding and practicing consultation; and
g. crisis intervention and suicide prevention models, including the use of psychological first aid strategies.
6. GROUP WORK—studies that provide both theoretical and experiential understandings of group purpose, development, dynamics, theories, methods, skills, and other group approaches in a multicultural society, including all of the following:
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a. principles of group dynamics, including group process components, developmental stage theories, group members’ roles and behaviors, and therapeutic factors of group work;
b. group leadership or facilitation styles and approaches, including characteristics of various types of group leaders and leadership styles;
c. theories of group counseling, including commonalities, distinguishing characteristics, and pertinent research and literature;
d. group counseling methods, including group counselor orientations and behaviors, appropriate selection criteria and methods, and methods of evaluation of effectiveness; and
e. direct experiences in which students participate as group members in a small group activity, approved by the program, for a minimum of 10 clock hours over the course of one academic term.
7. ASSESSMENT—studies that provide an understanding of individual and group approaches to assessment and evaluation in a multicultural society, including all of the following:
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a. historical perspectives concerning the nature and meaning of assessment;
b. basic concepts of standardized and nonstandardized testing and other assessment techniques, including norm-referenced and criterion-referenced assessment, environmental assessment, performance assessment, individual and group test and inventory methods, psychological testing, and behavioral observations;
c. statistical concepts, including scales of measurement, measures of central tendency, indices of variability, shapes and types of distributions, and correlations;
d. reliability (i.e., theory of measurement error, models of reliability, and the use of reliability information);
e. validity (i.e., evidence of validity, types of validity, and the relationship between reliability and validity);
f. social and cultural factors related to the assessment and evaluation of individuals, groups, and specific populations; and
g. ethical strategies for selecting, administering, and interpreting assessment and evaluation instruments and techniques in counseling.
8. RESEARCH AND PROGRAM EVALUATION—studies that provide an understanding of research methods, statistical analysis, needs assessment, and program evaluation, including all of the following:
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a. the importance of research in advancing the counseling profession;
b. research methods such as qualitative, quantitative, single-case designs, action research, and outcome-based research;
c. statistical methods used in conducting research and program evaluation;
d. principles, models, and applications of needs assessment, program evaluation, and the use of findings to effect program modifications;
e. the use of research to inform evidence-based practice; and
f. ethical and culturally relevant strategies for interpreting and reporting the results of research and/or program evaluation studies.