SOPC Rubric Discussion Forum

Input from Heather Harris is below.  CCP 700/701 (We start teaching the summer class soon so I'm hoping to get your input ASAP)    I'm definitely open to making any changes.  Thanks!


Course Objectives:

To demonstrate competency in the following areas:
1.   Rapport building with clients;
2.   Understanding of the process of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning;
3.   Identify treatment interventions appropriate to the clinical situation and setting;
4.   Identify barriers to treatment (otherwise known as being “stuck”)
5.   To function fully as a member of a treatment team (as appropriate to setting).
6.   To demonstrate competence in using the DSM 5

In addition, students will continue to:
1.   Become more comfortable and confident in sharing your work with peers and supervisors;
2.   To become aware of, and able to manage, ethical issues involved in the practice of counseling;
3.   To be able to identify successful treatment strategies and share these with the class;
4.   To look at your self as therapist, and to explore the whole range of associated issues (from transference/counter-transference to areas of strength or areas in which you are challenged).

Heather Harris - CCP 617 Input for core learning outcomes:

Outcomes of the Course:

Knowledge Outcomes:
•   To understand normal developmental and family life cycles stresses and how these might impact students at school.
•   To gain an awareness of the range of assessment instruments for children in need, and how to administer them.
•   To understand different types of support a school can offer to students in need, including prevention, intervention and post-vention.
•   To understand student learning disorders including emotional issues affecting student achievement and their treatment.
•   To gain awareness of the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, physical and sexual abuse and violence in PreK-12 students.
•   To develop techniques for communicating and working with families and school and community personnel.
•   To develop knowledge of the criminal justice system with particular reference to the juvenile justice system and organizations.
•   To develop knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations addressing the legal rights of students and families.
•   To develop knowledge of state-of-the-art diagnostic instruments; procedures for testing and interpreting results.


Skill Outcomes:
•   To train school counselors/educators to think in terms of normal development and to look for stressors that can derail normal development.
•   To train school counselors/educators to carefully assess a student from both a systems and an individual development perspective to determine the most effective course of intervention.
•   To develop more advanced knowledge and understanding of ways to support students, whether it’s by involving outside agencies, or by direct intervention.

Attitudinal Outcomes:
•   To develop comfort with conceptualizing a student in context of his/her greater social support network.
•   To experience careful diagnostic assessment as a natural and logical precursor to intervention.
•   To experience insight and understanding of the notion of intervening at the point of greatest need, based on a Maslow-type of hierarchy.

Behavioral Outcomes:
•   Individuals who take this course will have a fundamental understanding of how to assess a child and at which point to intervene most effectively in his/her life.
•   To expand the repertoire of school counselors beyond the scope of individual counseling to encompass prevention, intervention with agencies, and possible post-vention techniques.