COUN 7448 - Leadership, Consultation and Intervention in the Schools (3 Credit Hours)

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
This course provides a general framework for understanding and practicing various theories and models of consultation and potential interventions in P-12 systems. Designed to train school counselors how to intervene with children and adolescents presenting with learning disabilities and behavioral and emotional disorders at school, strategies are explored that counselors, teachers, and parents can use to prevent, recognize, and assist students at risk of developing emotional or behavioral barriers to learning connected to abuse, violence, addictions, childhood depression, suicide etc. The role of leadership in school reform as it pertains to the issues and barriers that may affect student development and functioning are explored. This course is designed to be taken concurrently with Internship I as field experience is integral to the course work.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of “C” in COUN 7445 and COUN 7437.
Restriction(s): NO Undergraduate Level Students