COUN 729 - Seminar: Leadership & Advocacy

3 Credit(s)

This leadership focused course will focus on current issues in counseling to include the role of ethical and legal consideration in counselor education and supervision. Focus will be on the theories, skilss and models of leadership as well as strategies for responding to community, national, and international crises and disasters. Students will explore current topical and political issues in counseling and how those issues affect the daily work of counselors and the counseling profession. Students must demonstrate the ability to provide leadership or contribute to leadership efforts of professional organizations and/or counseling programs and the ability to advocate for the profession and its clientele.