CNSL 6400 Professional Foundations of Counseling

Orientation to the counseling profession with emphasis on philosophical, historical, psychological, and organizational foundations of professional practice. The course broadly examines the major tenets of the counseling profession: advocacy and multicultural counseling, licensure, professional associations, ethical/legal issues, crisis intervention, consultation, supervision, outcomes, research, and the counseling process, with diverse applications across the life span, settings, and specialties.

Registration Name

Professional Foundations

Lecture Hours

Lab Hours

Credits

Offered

Online: Fall

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will:

Know the history and philosophy of the counseling profession.
Understand the professional roles, functions, and relationships with other human service providers, including strategies for interagency/interorganization collaboration and communications.
Understand the 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.
Apply self-care strategies appropriate to the counselor role.
Know the counseling supervision models, practices, and processes.
Identify the professional organizations, including membership benefits, activities, services to members, and current issues.
Understand the professional credentialing, including certification, licensure, and accreditation practices and standards, and the effects of public policy on these issues.
Understand the role and process of the professional counselor advocating on behalf of the profession.
Understand the advocacy processes needed to address institutional and social barriers that impede access, equity, and success for clients.
Apply the ethical standards of professional organizations and credentialing bodies, and applications of ethical and legal considerations in professional counseling.