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Dec 16, 2025
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SPSY 540 - Counseling in Schools
This graduate foundation course emphasizes the development, resilience, behavioral assessment, counseling, and functioning of children aged 0-22 years from a cross-cultural perspective utilizing an ecological framework. Special topics of counseling skills, family acculturation, immigration, generational conflicts, gender, ability, poverty, and human sexuality will be explored using a DisCrit framework. Students will engage in activities that help them to know and understand themselves as practitioners and counselors and thus be better able to engage students as experts of their own experiences, applying strategies that enhance self-awareness and self-regulation to manage the influence of personal biases and values in working with diverse students. Students will also be introduced to knowledge, values, and skills that help them understand engagement, assessment and counseling as dynamic and interactive processes of school psychology with, and on behalf of, diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Students will be instructed to critically evaluate and apply this knowledge in their work with these various populations. Activities and experiences in this course will focus on students gaining awareness about how their personal experiences and affective reactions may affect their engagement, assessment, counseling, and decision-making with respect to interventions in school psychological practice. Students will gain knowledge about evidence-based practices to providing counseling services within the school setting.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: SPSY 550 )
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 3
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