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Term: Fall 2013

AZTransfer SUN courses only

CSD 552 - Aphasia And Right Hemisphere Damage: This course will prepare graduate speech-language pathology students to work with clients with aphasia and right hemisphere damage (RHD). Students will obtain the knowledge and skills to evaluate, treat, and educate/counsel individuals with language and cognitive-communicative disorders. A review of functional and efficacious approaches to therapy will be completed in this course. Letter grade only.
CSD 653 - Traumatic Brain Injury And Dementia: This course will prepare graduate speech-language pathology students to work with clients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and dementia. Students will obtain the knowledge and skills to evaluate, treat, and educate/counsel individuals with cognitive-communicative disorders related to traumatic brain injury and dementia. A review of functional and efficacious approaches to therapy will be completed in this course. Letter grade only.
CTE 532 - Special Needs Populations In Career And Technical Education: Understanding the identification, assessment, counseling, and planning processes for special needs populations in career and technical education. Letter grade only.
EPS 404 - Counseling And Student Development In A University Setting: Overview of counseling and student development theories, practices, concepts, skills, and contemporary issues in a university setting. Letter grade only.
EPS 415 - Counseling Skills For Orientation Leaders: This course is a pre-service course for students who will serve as Orientation Leaders for Northern Arizona University during the spring, summer, and fall orientation sessions. Instructor's consent required. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: Successfully hired as an Orientation Leader by the Office of New Student Programs.
EPS 426 - Discipline Strategies: Module in classroom applications of learning theory, including classroom management, discipline, and counseling approaches for children in elementary grades. Letter grade only.
EPS 592 - Foundations Of Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Introduces clinical mental health counseling, including historical perspectives, theory, practice, employment settings, credentialing requirements, research, and ethical considerations. Letter grade only.
EPS 594 - Foundations Of School Counseling: Introduces school counseling in K-12 schools; provides an overview of current trends, historical perspectives, roles and functions, multicultural competencies, credentialing, national standards, research, and ethical considerations. This course contains an assessment that must be passed to be eligible to register for the internship. Letter grade only.
EPS 601 - Theories Of Counseling: Basic counseling theories of relevance to helping professionals. Letter grade only.
EPS 615 - Lifespan Human Development: Implications For Counseling: The course will examine human development over the lifespan and prepare students to conceptualize clients through this perspective. Child, adolescent and adult development will be explored through the study of major theories and models. This course will combine theory and models with practice by looking at strategies for assessment, case conceptualization, intervention and wellness from a developmental perspective. Application of these principles in relation to self and others will be practiced. Letter grade only.
EPS 620 - Vocational Counseling And Career Development: Theories of career choice and vocational development and means of evaluating, promoting, and enhancing vocational development. Letter grade only.
EPS 621 - Marital Counseling And Family Systems: Introduces the major theories in marital and family counseling, including developmental phases of the family. EPS 610, EPS 611 and EPS 612 recommended.
EPS 622 - Child And Adolescent Counseling: Theory and techniques for treating psychological disorders in children and adolescents. Includes approaches to treatment, efficacy research, and treatment evaluation. Letter grade only.
EPS 634 - Practices Of School Counseling: Emphasizes practices of school counseling including structure, knowledge, skills, and evaluation functions; program delivery; and procedures and strategies for integrating, managing, delivering, and promoting school counseling and consultation services. This course contains an assessment that must be passed to be eligible to register for the internship. Letter grade only.
EPS 660 - Counseling Processes: Introduces counseling skill development, emphasizing counseling of normal individuals with developmental concerns. Includes 15-hour practicum. EPS 670 recommended; and Admission to an EPS Graduate Program for which this course is required. Required programs include: MA Counseling, EdS School Psychology, MEd School Counseling and Student Affairs, PhD Counseling and School Psychology. Letter grade only.
EPS 661 - Group Processes: Methods of leadership, group effectiveness, communication within groups, and evaluation of outcomes. Required programs include: MA Counseling, MEd School Counseling and Student Affairs, PhD Counseling Psychology. Letter grade only.
EPS 669 - Crisis, Trauma, And Disaster Counseling: This course is an introduction to the research and practice of crisis counseling, trauma counseling, and disaster mental health. Issues related to the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of individuals, families and communities affected by crises, trauma and disasters will be thoroughly addressed consistent with the 2009 CACREP standards. Letter grade only.
EPS 673 - Psychoeducational Assessment I: Administration, scoring, interpretation, and report writing with major measures of intelligence. Includes theory and research with practicum experience. Required programs include: MA School Psychology, PhD Counseling and School Psychology. This course contains an assessment that must be passed to be eligible to register for the internship. Letter grade only.
EPS 681 - Evidence-based Counseling Techniques: This course provides information and supervised practice on how to select and apply specific counseling techniques. Topics will include case conceptualization and treatment planning and guidance on how to research client problems and disorders and find information on evidence-based treatments. Letter grade only.
EPS 690 - Multicultural Counseling: Theoretical and skill development course for counselors and clinicians designed to strengthen awareness, knowledge, and skills in the competencies necessary to evaluate presenting problems brought by ethnically and culturally diverse clients. Letter grade only.
EPS 692 - Counseling Practicum: Supervised, on-campus counseling practicum experiences, emphasizing interaction with individuals seeking service from counselors. One hundred clock hours minimum experience. Required programs include: MA Counseling, MEd School Counseling and Student Affairs, PhD Counseling Psychology. This course contains an assessment that must be passed to be eligible to register for the internship. Pass-fail only. Course fee required.
EPS 694 - Counseling Internship: Master's: Post-practicum experience providing supervised, on-the-job experience in counseling. 600 clock hours required. Required programs include: MA Counseling or MEd School Counseling or MEd Student Affairs or PhD Counseling Psychology. May be repeated for up to 12 units of credit. Pass-fail only. Course fee required.
EPS 700 - Educational Psychology Doctoral Orientation Seminar: This course provides newly admitted doctoral students with an orientation to the policies and practices that constitute the NAU doctoral training program in Educational Psychology. Professional issues in School Psychology, Counseling Psychology, and Learning & Instruction will be discussed as they relate to doctoral level training and practice. Pass-fail only.
EPS 722 - Advanced Counseling And Psychotherapy: Contemporary theories, skills in supervision, developmental counseling, and therapy. Letter grade only.
EPS 737 - Psychodiagnostics I: Administration and interpretation of objective and projective measures of personality (adolescents and adults). Emphasizes diagnosis and written case reports. Required programs include: MA Counseling or PhD Counseling Psychology or PhD School Psychology. EPS 680 recommended. Letter grade only.
EPS 750 - Counseling Supervision: Doctoral-level supervision practicum. Emphasizes development of counseling supervision models for training beginning counselors. Letter grade only.
EPS 767 - Research Paradigms: The first purpose of this course is to develop understanding in the application of research designs and methods for planning and conducting research in the fields of Counseling Psychology, School Psychology, and Learning & Instruction. A second purpose of the course is to assist students in developing the major components of their dissertation proposals. A third purpose is to enhance skills in analyzing and interpreting research articles. Pass-fail only.
EPS 796 - Doctoral Internship: Full-time supervised experience. Counseling Psychology - 2000 hours, must be taken for 9 credit hours; School Psychology - 1500 hours, must be taken for 6 credit hours (at least 600 hours in school setting). Must be taken for a minimum of two semesters for a total of 6-9 credit hours, as specified in program of studies. Instructor consent. Pass-fail only. Course fee required.
PHA 689 - Capstone: This course provides the forum to demonstrate mastery of the program competencies through two activities, an Independent Project (options: PowerPoint presentation; clinical review article; Poster presentation) and summative exam (development of differential diagnosis, clinical scenarios, interpretation of laboratory values, radiological findings or EKGs, focused physical exam performance, prescription writing, patient education and counseling). Letter grade only.
PRM 280 - Camp Counseling: Purposes, standards, and trends in camping: counseling skills, problems of group outdoor living, program planning, and general camp management. Letter grade only. Course fee required.