Lewis & Clark Moodle

Evidence-based approaches to treating eating, disorders, including Cognitive Behavioral, Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Radically, Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and, Commitment Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, and more.

Evidence-based approaches to treating eating
disorders, including Cognitive Behavioral
Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Radically
Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and
Commitment Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy
and more.

DISABILITY STUDIES AND UNIVERSAL DESIGN:
Every educator will encounter students who meet the criteria for disability within public education and grapple with how to successfully foster learning, equity and inclusion in diverse classrooms and schools. This online course, introduces Disability Studies in Education-- a liberation movement discipline distinct from Special Education-- that offers unique insight into these endeavors and proposes Universal Design as a guiding principle.

Disability Studies proposes that "disability" is contextualized within particular social, cultural and political environments according to the acceptable limits of human variability in those environments. This contrasts with the "medical, model," which positions disability as a deficit inherent to an individual, to be rehabilitated, remediated or cured. Contrasting these two different theoretical models helps us to explore the ideology that may underlie ableism, stigma and privilege. Our inquiry will include lived experience and counter culture narratives associated with various disability groups. We will conclude by investigating how we may employ the principle of Universal Design to create embracive learning environments where all students feel valued and empowered, as well as how we may work to dismantle systemic barriers to equity and inclusion within Education.

Disability Studies intersects with other critical disciplines such as Critical Race Studies, Feminist Studies and Gender Studies, all of which foreground lived experience and de-center dominant narratives that cast particular individuals or groups as the "Other." These intersections are also considered in the course, shedding light on the persistent over-representation of minorities in Special Education and exploring whether disablement may function as a mechanism of marginalization for various groups.

Through assigned readings and communal online discussion among professional peers, we will investigate the philosophical, pedagogical, and pragmatic approaches to dis/ability, equity, and, inclusion in education. Teachers, counselors, administrators, psychologists, specialists and academics should all emerge from this course with the historical context, intellectual framework, and practical skills to deepen their professional practice and help promote social justice-both within the sphere of education and in the wider world.

Evidence-based approaches to treating eating, disorders, including Cognitive Behavioral, Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Radically, Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and, Commitment Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, and more.

This course is about how to help people change what they experience and how they live their lives. We will examine core strategies, interventions, and counselor skills for the common issues clients bring to counselors and therapists. Learn from your own experience with a personal change experiment; practice helping a classmate; practice planning to help clients via cases examples; learn to research strategies useful with clients and problems of special interest to you; watch master therapists demonstrate their approaches to key elements of effective work with clients; learn how to help clients engage their best values and goals; learn to individualize your approach within a wholistic framework of social, cultural and spiritual relevance to your clients.

Overview and application of qualitative research, methods. Through course readings, discussion, and, practical application, candidates explore: (1), different approaches in qualitative research and, epistemologies and common theoretical perspectives, that undergird qualitative inquiry, and (2), various methods and techniques for gathering,, interpreting, and making meaning of in-depth and, rich information about things as they occur in, their natural settings. Candidates gain the skills, necessary to review and critique qualitative, research and to design and undertake their own, qualitative research.

Development of diversity awareness and knowledge, including systems of power and privilege., Introduction to methods/skills for working with, clients who are diverse in culture, race,, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, or, physical or mental ability. Focus is on helping, students become capable therapists in varied, environments, including becoming aware of their, own beliefs, biases, and prejudices.

Independent Study enables a student to pursue, in, collaboration with a faculty member, an academic, course not currently offered. To receive credit, for independent study, the student consults with, the faculty member before registration to define, the course content, title, amount of credit, and, academic evaluation. As a general rule, a graduate, student may apply no more than three courses of, independent study toward a graduate degree or, licensure.

Special topics in counseling, therapy and school

psychology. Students may obtain a course

description from the department office or website.

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This course provides an opportunity to explore
ecopsychology concepts and nature based practices
in the context of a multi-day outdoor experience.
Topics include backcountry safety, outdoor
leadership, wilderness philosophy and
conservation, benefits of immersion in natural
settings and retreats from modern technologies;
multicultural rites of passage; and techniques for
counseling/therapy in the outdoors. The course
typically features an off-campus weeklong or
multi-weekend residential format including tent
camping along with other activities such as day
and/or overnight hiking; mindfulness and team
building exercises; and other nature based and/or
adventure based activities. Outdoor experience not
required. There is a course fee.

This course explores the experience of death and loss and
addresses the clinical applications of family systems approach to
treatment of traumatic loss, anticipatory grief, complicated
grief, bereavement, end-of-life choices, and psycho-spiritual
crises. A portion of this course emphasizes clinical case
conceptualization and treatment planning. A focus is on the
meaning making process through creative and contemplative
interventions that help mediate the experience of loss and grief.

This course explores the experience of death and loss and
addresses the clinical applications of family systems approach to
treatment of traumatic loss, anticipatory grief, complicated
grief, bereavement, end-of-life choices, and psycho-spiritual
crises. A portion of this course emphasizes clinical case
conceptualization and treatment planning. A focus is on the
meaning making process through creative and contemplative
interventions that help mediate the experience of loss and grief.