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CEP 655 - Counseling Children and Youth with Disabilities

(3 units)
School counselors are valuable members of special education teams. Students will learn counseling modalities appropriate for children and youth with various disabilities, as well as learn how to utilize data to inform counseling strategies and create counseling goals.

Prerequisite(s): Counseling M.A. - School Counseling specialization.

Units of Lecture: 2
Units of Discussion/Recitation: 1
Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. throughout the course students are expected to demonstrate the attitudes, characteristics, and behaviors defined as the UNR Counseling Program Dispositions.
2. demonstrate the self-awareness, knowledge, and skill to ethically counsel students with disabilities in a school setting as evidenced by applying the ASCA Model to the case conceptualization.
3. identify, apply, and analyze an evidenced-based school counseling practice for students with disabilities.
4. reflect on the application of course content in a school counseling setting four times throughout the semester.


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