Professional Counseling Curriculum
(Course Requirements)

 

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I.  CORE REQUIREMENTS
(18 Hours)
Statistics and Research Design (3 Hours Required)
EDPS 6010 (3)  Introduction to Statistics and Research Design
Assessment and Measurement (6 Hours Required)
EDPS 6300 (3)  Introduction to Measurement
EDPS 7180 (3)  Personality Assessment

Developmental Theory (6 Hours Required)
EDPS 6330 (3)  Career Development and Assessment
EDPS 6051 (3)  Life Span: Early to Late Adulthood

Human Diversity (3 Hours Required)
EDPS 6360 (3)  Multicultural Counseling

II. COUNSELING THEORY AND PRACTICE
(23 Hours)
EDPS 6200 (3) Counseling Theories
EDPS 6210 (3) Counseling Skill
EDPS 6350 (3)  Group Counseling
EDPS 6340 (3) Substance Abuse Counseling
EDPS 6710 (3) Practicum in Counseling
EDPS 6910 (8) Internship in Counseling

III.  PC SPECIALIZATION REQUIREMENTS
(7 Hours)
EDPS 6820 (2)  Professional Issues in Mental Health
Counseling
EDPS 6960 (2)  Master’s LPC Ethics and Standards
EDPS 7600 (3)  DSM: Adult Psychopathology

IV. COUNSELING APPROACHES
(12 Hours)
EDPS 6960 (3)  Sexual Counseling
EDPS 6960 (3)  Meditation and Stress
EDPS 6960 (6)  *Positive Psychology
( online course content – two [3 credit hour] courses)

Program faculty also recommends the following didactic courses below that could be used in place of Positive Psychology online coursework.  

  • EDPS 6370   (3)   Psychology of Women
  • EDPS 6550   (3)   Soc Psych of Hum Diversity
  • EDPS 6050   (3)   Life Span: Infancy to Adolescence
  • EDPS 6250   (3)   Family Counseling (Summer Elective)

Degree requirements
The M.Ed. Degree requires that the student complete: (1) Core Requirements (18 Hours); (2) Counseling Theory and Practice Requirements (23 Hours); (3) PC Specialization Requirements (7 Hours); (4) Counseling Approaches (12 hours) for a total of 60 hours of graduate work; and (5) complete the Master’s Comprehensive Exam.

*Positive Psychology online series (EDPS 6960)

  • Forgiveness and anger reduction
  • Positive psychology & well-being
  • Coping with difficult people
  • Enhancing happiness and life satisfaction
  • Achieving peace after divorce
  • Quality of Intimate relationship
  • Positive psychology for addictive thinking
  • Growing from traumatic life experiences

*At least two of the Positive Psychology online courses are offered each semester:
http://www.ed.utah.edu/edps/positivePsych/index.php