CPSY 502 Introduction to Professional Mental Health and Addiction Counseling

Content: Basic theoretical assumptions of the professional mental health and addiction counseling profession, with an overview of the historical roots, social and cultural contexts, types of practice, ethical principles, and professional orientation. Special attention and focus will be on issues related to diversity and social justice.
Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: CPSY 513, CPSY 535.
Restrictions: Admission to the Professional Mental Health Counseling-Addictions program or consent of program director.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

CPSY 506 Life Span Development

Content: Exploration of life span development through the lenses of social, cultural, cognitive, biological, and learning theories and research. Emphasis is on gaining better conceptual understanding of healthy development and better practical understanding of how to help children, adolescents, and adults address the developmental challenges they face across the life span. Particular focus placed on understanding our own developmental processes as well as the role of cultural difference and commonality in the developmental process.
Prerequisites: For Professional Mental Health Counseling and Professional Mental Health Counseling--Addictions students, CPSY 502 or CPSY 503, CPSY 513.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

CPSY 511 Practical Skills for Professional Mental Health and Addiction Counselors

Content: This course serves as an introduction to the basic counseling skills and techniques utilized in professional mental health and addiction counseling. Special focus is given to motivational interviewing, the trans-theoretical model of change, and to basic counseling concepts and skills. The various concepts, skills, and techniques presented in the course will be satisfactorily developed through demonstration, role-playing practice, and simulated videotaped counseling experiences.
Prerequisites: CPSY 502, CPSY 513, CPSY 535.
Corequisites: CPSY 506, CPSY 550.
Restrictions: Admission to Professional Mental Health Counseling-Addiction program or consent of program director.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 513 Theory and Philosophy of Counseling

Content: Overview of counseling theories such as psychoanalytic, Adlerian, client-centered, cognitive-behavioral, multi-modal, Gestalt, feminist, existential, solution-focused, and brief therapy, as well as integrative approaches. Examines a wide range of theoretical perspectives and advocates professional knowledge of best practices. Students acquire knowledge of various counseling theories and critique their relevance to diverse populations and clinical situations. Students clarify their personal assumptions and learn how to explain their own theoretical stance. Issues of diversity and client matching are addressed throughout.
Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: CPSY-503 or CPSY 569.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 514 Group Counseling With Children and Adolescents

Content: Instruction and practice in developing group treatments for children and adolescents in clinical and school settings. Students gain practice as group leaders in addressing issues related to group dynamics, cultural diversity, potential problems encountered when running groups, and generalization and maintenance of behavioral change. Students also gain experience constructing curricula for specific issues such as divorce, substance use, grief, and social skills.
Prerequisites: For students in the Professional Mental Health Counseling or Professional Mental Health Counseling-Addictions programs, CPSY 502 or CPSY 503, CPSY 506, CPSY 509 or CPSY 511, CPSY 513, CPSY 522, CPSY 530 or CPSY 535, CPSY 534, CPSY 550. For students in Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy programs, CPSY 504, CPSY 506, CPSY 526; for students in the School Psychology program, CPSY 507.
Restrictions: Consent of Counseling Psychology department required.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 515 Group Counseling With Adults

Content: Introduction to the major schools of thought regarding group therapy and the common factors associated with positive outcomes. Covers group dynamics, obstacles to success in group therapy, and the stages of group process. Role-playing, outside group membership, and demonstrations illustrate principles of effective group leadership.
Prerequisites: For Professional Mental Health Counseling and Professional Mental Health Counseling--Addictions students, CPSY 502 or CPSY 503, CPSY 506, CPSY 509 or CPSY 511, CPSY 513, CPSY 522, CPSY 530 or 535, CPSY 534, CPSY 550. For Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy students, CPSY 504, CPSY 506, CPSY 526.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 520 Career Counseling

Content: Career development theories; current career trends, concerns, and programs/interventions for diverse client populations; career counseling strategies, tools, and resources (including Web-based resources); facilitation of client awareness, choice, and action with respect to career-related issues; integration of career counseling with mental health and addictions treatment. Emphasis is on developing a broad view of career as lifestyle, the mutual impact of career and culture, and the practical application of theory and information in a professional counseling context.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2-3 semester hours.

CPSY 522 Diagnosis of Mental and Emotional Disorders

Content: Introduction to the structure and uses of the DSM-IV and ICD-9 systems for diagnosing mental and emotional disorders. Limits and weaknesses of these approaches--especially with regard to cultural differences--and alternatives to them. How to use these systems effectively in the context of person-centered, psychosocial, and systemic interventions, and in culturally diverse environments. Current knowledge, theory, and issues regarding selected disorders. Use of technology-based research tools to secure and evaluate contemporary knowledge.
Prerequisites: For Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy students, CPSY 569. For Professional Mental Health Counseling and Professional Mental Health Counseling--Addictions students, CPSY 502 or CPSY 503, CPSY 506, CPSY 509 or CPSY 511, CPSY 513, CPSY 530 or CPSY 535, CPSY 550.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

CPSY 523 Counseling and Interventions With Children and Adolescents

Content: Mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders of childhood and adolescents. Topics include identification, diagnosis, and planning of multifaceted counseling intervention and treatment strategies; developmental, social, and cultural influences on diagnoses and interventions; ecological and social-justice-oriented conceptualization and intervention across systems.
Prerequisites: For Professional Mental Health Counseling and Professional Mental Health Counseling--Addictions students, CPSY 502 or CPSY 503, CPSY 506, CPSY 509 or CPSY 511, CPSY 513, CPSY 522, CPSY 530 or CPSY 535, CPSY 534, CPSY 550. For Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy students, CPSY 504, CPSY 506, CPSY 526. For School Psychology students, CPSY 507.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 524 Counseling and Interventions With Adults

Content: Identification, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental, emotional, substance abuse, and addictive disorders in late adolescence and adulthood. Covers adjustment, mood, anxiety, psychotic, dissociative, impulse, sexual, personality, and addictive disorders, including gambling and eating disorders. Topics include multicultural, interpersonal, and relationship factors; evidence-based treatments; and information technology research tools. Emphasis is on planning comprehensive, multifaceted treatment interventions.
Prerequisites: For Professional Mental Health Counseling or Professional Mental Health Counseling--Addictions students, CPSY 502 or 503, CPSY 506, CPSY 509 or CPSY 511, CPSY 513, CPSY 530 or CPSY 535, CPSY 550. For Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy students, CPSY 504, CPSY 506.
Corequisites: CPSY 522 (may be taken prior to or concurrently with CPSY 524).
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 525 Ethical and Legal Issues in Professional Mental Health and Addiction Counseling

Content: Consideration of the applicable ethical and legal issues for professional mental health and addiction counselors. Students develop skills in ethical assessment and resolution.
Prerequisites: CPSY 502, CPSY 506, CPSY 511, CPSY 513, CPSY 522, CPSY 524, CPSY 534, CPSY 535 or CPSY 530, CPSY 550.
Corequisites: CPSY 514 or CPSY 515, CPSY 523, CPSY 545.
Restrictions: Admission to the Professional Mental Health Counseling-Addictions program or consent of program director.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

CPSY 532 Introduction to Assessment

Content: Principles of psychological assessment as employed in school, clinical, and applied settings. Addresses psychometric concepts such as validity, reliability, norms, and score interpretation. Surveys intelligence, personality, career, interest, aptitude, and achievement tests and reviews alternative methods of assessing competence and person-situation interactions. Contemporary issues such as the validity of instruments for diverse populations and the impact of technology on assessment are discussed.
Prerequisites: CPSY 502 or CPSY 503, CPSY 506, CPSY 509 or CPSY 511, CPSY 513, CPSY 530 or 535, CPSY 534, CPSY 550.
Corequisites: CPSY 522, CPSY 514 or CPSY 515.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

CPSY 533 Practicum in Professional Mental Health and Addiction Counseling

Content: In their initial supervised clinical training placement, PMHC-A practicum students learn to provide direct counseling services in community-based mental health, addiction, clinic, or school settings to clients experiencing the full range of mental health, addiction, and dual diagnosis issues. Practicum students receive weekly supervision in this class from a CPSY faculty or other clinical staff in conjunction with weekly individual/triadic supervision from a designated qualified professional at their clinical site. Student placements are for 8-10 hours per week for a total of 150 hours accrued during the placement. The group class provides supervision, feedback, and support for practicum students while doing their initial clinical training. Students are expected to demonstrate appropriate professional skills and the personal characteristics and professional conduct necessary for effective and ethical professional mental health and addiction counseling.
Prerequisites: CPSY 502, CPSY 506, CPSY 511, CPSY 513, CPSY 514 or CPSY 515, CPSY 522, CPSY 523, CPSY 524, CPSY 525, CPSY 534, CPSY 535 or CPSY 530, CPSY 545, CPSY 550.
Corequisites: CPSY 532, CPSY 546.
Restrictions: Admission to Professional Mental Health Counseling-Addicion program or consent of program director.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 534 Child and Family Counseling

Content: An introduction to theoretical systems and practical approaches to working with children and families in various counseling settings. Ethical principles, self-awareness, personal counseling style and honoring of diversity will be examined through textbook reading, class discussions, reflective assignments, as well as various classroom activities to assist students in beginning work with children and families. Students will practice counseling skills related to working with children and families and will develop awareness and intentionality in conceptualization of child and family clients.
Prerequisites: CPSY 502 or CPSY 503, CPSY 506, CPSY 509 or CPSY 511, CPSY 513, CPSY 550, CPSY 530 or CPSY 535.
Restrictions: Admission to Professional Mental Health Counseling Program or Professional Mental Health Counseling--Addictions Program.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 535 Research Methods in Counseling

Content: Foundations of psychological research. Students are introduced to qualitative and quantitative research processes and basic concepts. Topics include (1) elements of the research process; (2) types of designs, program evaluation; (3) ethical considerations of research: informed consent, research with diverse and vulnerable populations, research with children, human subjects review; (4) basic measurement concepts: validity, reliability, norms, score interpretation; and (5) basic statistical concepts: frequency distributions, central tendency, measures of variability, correlation, normal curve, hypothesis testing, significance tests. Students read and evaluate examples of published research. Reviews Web-based resources for conducting research.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 545 Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior

Content: Psychopharmacology of alcohol and drug abuse. Major drugs and classes of abused substances. Mechanisms of action in the brain, patterns of physiological response in abuse, addiction, and recovery. Impact on brain function, cognition, emotions, behavior, and social effects. Pharmacological adjuncts to detoxification and treatment.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: Permission of the Professional Mental Health Counseling - Addictions program director.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 546 Models of Addiction and Recovery

Content: Theories of the nature, course, causes, and effects of addiction to alcohol and drugs of abuse. Conditions, processes, and patterns of recovery. Emphasis on physiological, social learning, and interpersonal models and theories. Natural history of onset, abuse, addiction, and recovery; effects of intergenerational transmission, genetic predilection, developmental risk, and sociocultural factors; effects on psychosocial development; impact of culture and gender differences. Implications for treatment.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: Permission of the Professional Mental Health Counseling - Addictions program director.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 547 Addictions Treatment: Procedures, Skills, and Case Management

Content: Emphasis on developing detailed understanding and beginning skills in the use of specific strategies, procedures, and interventions in assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of substance abuse and addictive disorders. Topics include multiple modes and models of assessment, intervention and treatment, content and basic assumptions of different treatment modalities, organization of comprehensive treatment strategies, motivational interviewing in the context of stages-of-change models, contracting with clients, consultation, integration of medical and psychosocial treatments, referral processes and standards, issues of moderation versus abstinence, relapse prevention, and case management. Also covers documentation, record keeping and management, confidentiality, and ethical and legal issues.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: Permission of the Professional Mental Health Counseling - Addictions program director.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 550 Diversity and Social Justice

Content: Development of diversity awareness and knowledge including systems of power and privilege. Introduction to methods/skills for working with clients who are diverse in culture, race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, or physical or mental ability. Focus is on helping students become capable therapists in varied environments, including becoming aware of their own beliefs, biases, and prejudices.
Prerequisites: Professional Mental Health Counseling and Professional Mental Health Counseling-Addictions students, CPSY 502 or CPSY 503, CPSY 513.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 570 Seminar in Critical Issues for the Professional Mental Health and Addiction Counselor

Content: Final course in the Professional Mental Health--Addictions sequence, taken during the last year of study in the program. Addresses key issues of importance to new professional mental health and addiction counselors entering the field.
Prerequisites: CPSY 502, CPSY 506, CPSY 511, CPSY 513, CPSY 514 or CPSY 515, CPSY 522, CPSY 523, CPSY 524, CPSY 525, CPSY 535 or CPSY 530, CPSY 532, CPSY 533, CPSY 534, CPSY 545, CPSY 546, CPSY 547, CPSY 550, CPSY 564, CPSY 580.
Corequisites: CPSY 580.
Restrictions: Admission to Professional Mental Health Counseling-Addiction program or consent of program director.
Credits: 1 semester hour.

CPSY 580 Internship in Professional Mental Health and Addiction Counseling

Content: Internship placement is in a community-based mental health/addiction or school setting. Participants engage in counseling and related professional activities under supervision. Students write reports, prepare case histories, and submit work samples for supervisory review.
Prerequisites: CPSY 502, CPSY 506, CPSY 511, CPSY 513, CPSY 514 or CPSY 515, CPSY 522, CPSY 523, CPSY 524, CPSY 525, CPSY 535 or CPSY 530, CPSY 532, CPSY 533, CPSY 534, CPSY 545, CPSY 546, CPSY 547, CPSY 550, CPSY 564.
Corequisites: CPSY 520, CPSY 570.
Restrictions: Admission to the Professional Mental Health Counseling-Addictions program or consent of program director.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 530 Research Methods and Statistics I

Content: Introduction to research methods with an emphasis on design, sampling, measurement issues, and introductory data analysis. Topics include (1) research design: elements of the research process, types of designs, program evaluation; (2) ethical considerations of research: informed consent, research with diverse and vulnerable populations, research with children, human subjects review; (3) basic measurement concepts: validity, reliability, norms, score interpretation; (4) basic statistical concepts: frequency distributions, central tendency, measures of variability, correlation. Reviews Web-based resources for conducting research. Note: Taught during the fall semester only, as the first course of a two-semester sequence. Students who wish to pursue the thesis-option M.S. program are advised to take this sequence as early as possible in their course of study.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 531 Research Methods and Statistics II

Content: Research design and data analysis, inferential statistics. Simple and complex designs, normal distribution, z-test, t-test, analysis of variance, statistical power, simple regression. Overview of nonparametric and multivariate analysis. Note: Taught in spring semester only, as the second course of a two-semester sequence. Students who wish to pursue the thesis-option M.S. program are advised to take this sequence as early as possible in their course of study.
Prerequisites: CPSY-530.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CPSY 594 Proposal Writing

Content: Direct instruction and support for the process of preparing a thesis and/or other research or grant proposals. Includes both a colloquium and individual consultations with a thesis chair (or, if not writing a thesis, another faculty member). The colloquium will focus on the refinement of research questions, the specifics of research design, and the Human Subjects in Research application process. Consultations with thesis committee chair or other faculty member will focus on the development of a manuscript that clearly details the purpose of the research, summarizes relevant literature, and identifies the proposed design and methodology for the research project.
Prerequisites: CPSY 530 and CPSY 531, or consent of instructor. .
Restrictions: Permission of thesis coordinator.
Credits: 1 semester hour.

CPSY 595 Master's Thesis Research

Content: Completion of thesis research project under the direction of the chair of the candidate's thesis committee. Three semester hours, which can be taken in 1-semester hour increments, are required for degree. Grades are deferred until the candidate has successfully defended his or her thesis.
Prerequisites: Consent of thesis committee chair.
Restrictions: Consent of thesis committee chair.
Credits: 1-9 semester hours.