Leadership and Professional Issues in Counseling

Catalog description

This course provides doctoral students with the awareness, knowledge, and skills required of counselors, counselor educators, and counseling supervisors if they are to be effective leaders in a variety of settings. This course seeks to facilitate the development of counseling leadership and multicultural competencies through the examination of the profession?s perspectives of career development and related pedagogy. Diversity and identity issues, multicultural models and frameworks, and professional ethics are explored in relation to their impact on therapeutic, instructional, consultative, and supervisory relationships. Also emphasized are issues regarding spirituality, religion, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, gender, advocacy, social justice, and trauma, crisis, and disaster within the context of contemporary issues. Current topical, political, and professional issues are explored with respect to the impact they may have on the work of counseling and the profession.