COU 6501 The Counseling Profession
This course provides a conceptual foundation for the counseling profession. The course will focus on associations, licensure, certification, accreditation, codes of ethics, and practice settings, and will familiarize learners with the assumptions, theories, strategies, applications, and ethical and legal considerations related to counseling. Central to this course will be an on-going self-evaluation of the learners' attitudes, values, interpersonal skills, and motives for choosing counseling as a profession. Threaded throughout the course will be the concept of counselor as social change agent and advocate for clients, the community, and the counseling profession.