COUNSELING SUMMER INSTITUTES

THE CAREER PLAN INITIATIVE FOR COUNSELORS AND TEACHERS: RAISING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT FOR ALL STUDENTS
EDC 750      July 7-11, 2008      9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Coordinator: Dr. Joseph Despres
This intensive institute will help counselors and teachers, K-12, to understand, and participate in, the implementation of the Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Standards of New York State. The implementation process, known as The Career Plan Initiative, will change the way school counselors work in schools, show them a new paradigm of collaboration and cooperation with teachers, and will reap exciting benefits for both.

This institute is intended for school counseling and teaching practitioners in the early-to mid-stages of their career, as well as for graduate students who wish to preview the future of their profession.

Through a combination of lectures, guest speakers, small and large group discussions, and best practices created by former Institute students, participants will understand the background and origin of this Initiative, its application to schooling, K-12, and how to prepare for their role in it.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED INCLUDE:

• Background of the New York State Learning Standards
• Career Developments Nationally in the 1970's, 1980's, 1990's
• The SCANS Skills
• The School-to-Work Reform Movement
• The New York State Regents Action Plan
• School Business Advisory Boards
• Comprehensive, Developmental School Counseling Models
• The ASCA National Model

WORKSHOP COORDINATOR:
Dr. Joseph Despres is an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling. He has been a career plan trainer with the New York State Education Department since 1997.

GUEST TRAINER:
Sandra McGarraugh, Center for Innovation in Career Development, University at Albany, New York.

COUNSELING THROUGH THE CREATIVE ARTS
EDC 750      August 4-8, 2008      9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Coordinator: Dr. A. Scott McGowan
This intensive five-day learning institute is designed specifically to present a comprehensive and developmentally- oriented approach for the application of play theories and techniques and the creative arts to the process of counseling clients of any age. Upon completion of the institute, students will have learned from a developmental viewpoint to recognize and to strengthen the underpinnings of a health self-concept necessary for learning and for positive self-growth. Also, they will have learned how to apply creative art approaches, such as visual arts, music and dramatics, to the counseling process when working with individuals, small groups, large groups, and families, and will have acquired and practiced techniques utilizing the creative arts (e.g., art, music, movement, dramatics, etc.) that can be used in counseling. The emphasis will be upon “hands-on” skill development.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• To increase understanding of the process of play
• To explore the historical development of play theories
• To increase knowledge and understanding of the theories and techniques related to play therapy, the expressive arts and counseling
• To explore the kinds of media available for use in counseling people throughout the life span
• To be able to develop a sense of play and creative arts experiences that can be used in counseling and guidance, and
• To develop competence in selecting and using play counseling techniques and the creative arts to help clients with different kinds of difficulties.

WORKSHOP COORDINATOR:
A. Scott McGowan, Ph.D., LMHC, NCC, ACS, is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Counseling and Development, Long Island University, C. W. Post Campus. He is a former Director of Counseling in the public schools, the past editor of several scholarly journals, and is presently the editor of the Journal of Counseling and Development, the flagship journal of the American Counseling Association. He is the past president of the Counseling Association for Humanistic Education and Development.

GUEST PROFESSOR:
Heather Mask, EDS, LPC, NCC is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Human Development and Psychological Counseling, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, and teaches in a department that promotes expressive arts in counseling. She is in private practice and is known as an expert in this area.

Each course is 3 graduate credits upon completion. Complete a course in just five class sessions (one week). Seating in each class is limited. Registration will be processed in order of receipt. To obtain an application call the Graduate Admissions Office at 845-359-7200 Ext. 5403 or email Rockland@liu.edu. A Bachelor’s degree is required for enrollment.