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    COUNSELLING FOR THE CLASSROOM TEACHER
    Spring Semester, 1981
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    INSTRUCTOR: A.
    Horvath
    CAMPUS
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    TIME: ?
    Tuesdays, ?
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    8:20 p.m.
    This course is intended for senior students or practising teachers who wish
    to explore the area of school counselling and develop some counselling skills
    that can be used within a classroom setting. A combination of lectures, dis-
    cussion, and practice exercises will be used as a means for exploring such
    areas as: the role of the school counsellor, counselling systems, vocational
    counselling, use of standardized tests as an aid to counselling, effective
    communication skills.
    TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE
    1.
    Counselling in a School Context
    - definition of school counselling
    - origins of counselling in the school
    - what does the school counsellor do?
    2. Counselling Roles I
    - the role of the counsellor in elementary school (guest speaker)
    - the role of the counsellor in a university setting (guest speaker)
    3.
    The Role of the Counsellor II
    - the school counsellor in the secondary school (guest speaker)
    - the role of the area counsellor (guest speaker)
    4.
    Theories of Helping I
    - the psychodynamic schools
    S. Theories of Helping II
    - the client-centred approach
    - the existential approach
    6. Theories of Helping III
    - behavioral approaches
    - the Glassarian approach
    - the Adlerian approach
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    Counselling Skills for the Classroom Teacher
    - skills of assessment and diagnosis: observations, testing, charting
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    Interviewing and Decision-Making Skills:
    - nonverbal communication skills
    - verbal skills facilitating communication
    - structuring the counselling intervention
    9.
    Helping to Make Decisions and Changes
    - strategies for exploration
    - teaching skills to change perceptions
    - responsible decision-making
    - miscellaneous techniques: relaxation, contracting, time-out,
    contingency management
    10.
    Group Facilitating Skills
    - the role of peers in counselling
    - effective group leadership skills
    - leadership styles
    - group problem-solving in the classroom
    - classroom management as a group process
    11. Special Topics and Ethical Considerations
    - vocational counselling and job search skills
    - dealing with children of special needs
    - to mainstream or not to mainstream ......
    - the ethics of counselling
    COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
    1.
    An essay on a selected topic due no later than March 18th, 1981.
    2.
    A small-group project of a critical review of a book or a set of articles
    and a presentation of the review in class.
    3.
    FINAL EXAMINATION

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