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Criteria
- Effective learning
- Human learning theory
- Cognitive behavior modifications
- Developmental psychology
- Brain behavior relationships
- Counseling/Psychotherapy
- Counseling overview
- Counseling theories
- Interpersonal communication skills
- Counseling relationship
- Counseling skills: listening, communication, self-awareness, interviewing skills
- Group counseling
- Group dynamics, processes, and applications
- Tasks and skills of group members and leaders
- Community-based counseling
- Intervention strategies
- Based in various settings
- Standardized testing
- Problems and principle of administration, scoring/interpreting scores
- Group and individual
- Elementary statistical procedures
- Counseling and personality theories
- Counseling diverse populations
- Diversity training
- Therapist racial identity and awareness
- Client racial/cultural characteristics: women, homosexual, racial, disabled
- Psychology and gender
- Understanding of gender
- Legal issues in higher education
- Issues influencing Higher ed
- Affirmative action
- Civil rights compliance
- Student discipline and grievance systems
- Sexual harassment and discrimination
- Legal risks of contracts, student organizations, and residence halls
- Board of regents governance of higher ed
- State and federal government governance of higher ed
- Constitutional issues: Freedom of association, due process, freedom of the press/speech
- Program development and evaluation
- Assessment techniques
- Statistics
- Research design
- Models for designing, managing and evaluating student affairs programs
- Information management/computer applications in higher education
- Needs analysis of college populations
- Substance abuse counseling
- School/private settings
- Causative factors
- Treatment strategies in various settings/populations
- Marriage and family therapy
- Theory
- Principles of communication
- Goals of marriage/family counseling
- Practical application of theories
- Identifying reasons for client need for counseling
- Career counseling
- School counseling
- Competencies and skills
- Individual planning
- System support
- Developmental guidance curriculum
- Assessment applications, hands-on
- Assessment measures
- Statistical concepts
- Interpretations and implications for counseling instruments
- Special education screening
- Loss and grief recovery counseling
- Loss and grief in the arts
- Personal loss experience
- Particular counseling interventions
- Use of role-playing in group/individual sessions
- Individual Counseling Techniques
- Developing healing relationships
- Diagnosis, goal formulations, treatment planning, termination, referral, record keeping
- Developmental issues in counseling children, adolescents, adults
- School and private settings
- Individual and systems techniques for assessment
- Techniques for consulting with parents and teachers
- Techniques for intervention
- Play therapy
- History
- Theoretical applications
- Therapeutic states
- Ethical issues
- Sandtray/Sand Play therapy
- Problems in education
- Student Affairs
- College students
- Characteristics
- Needs and services
- Culture and campus environment
- Student growth and development
- Understanding Educational Organizations
- Theoretical framework of organizational behavior
- Action Research
- Planning decision making
- Change in organization and leadership
Criteria
- Understanding people
- Development of personnel
- Entry-level knowledge of staff appraisal
- Adult learning and development
- Staff development
- Understanding environments
- Internal and external environments of educational organizations
- Instructional supervision
- Curriculum design
- Curriculum needs assessment
- Development, implementation, and evaluation
- Continuous school improvement
- TQM
- Other school improvement models
- Campus leadership, elementary & secondary
- Role/function of principal as leader
- Skill development in evaluation processes
- Student activity programs
- Staffing patterns
- Site-based decision-making
- Community relations
- Accounting procedures
- All other leadership skills
- Administration and staff personnel
- Organization and administration of:
- Professional staff
- Positions and relationships
- Professional ethics
- Welfare
- Professional involvement in policy and curriculum
- Faculty development
- Superintendency
- Problems superintendents encounter:
- School building: planning, contracting, financing, equipping fiscal and business management, taxation, budgeting, accounting, administering special services, transportation, food services, custodial services, management of personnel
- School law
- Constitutional provisions, statutory laws, court decisions, and regulations governing public schools, with special reference to state and federal relationships
- School finance
- School funds on local, state, and federal level
- Budgeting, data processing, systems of accounting and reporting, supply management as related to school efficiency
- Maintenance of buildings, grounds, and equipment
- Instructional models
- Characteristics of effective teaching, learning, classroom organization, assessment & professional development in correlation to instructional strategies, methodologies, and models
- Matching instruction to the needs of learning in integrative approaches
- Adult learning and development
- Foundations/theories, program design, grant proposal writing, and administration
- Problems in adult education
- Instructional technology
- Under-prepared learners in higher education
- Teaching and evaluating reading, learning strategies, critical thinking, and writing to adult learners
- Characteristics of adult learners
- Diversity
- Psychosocial aspects of development
- Relationship between learning and development in adulthood
- Intellectual and cognitive development during the adult years
- Theories of the life course
- Social roles and adult learning
- Culture, class, gender, and race: Influences on adult learning and development
- Transformative learning
- Adult teaching-learning relationships
- Teaching for life span development
- Challenges of adult learning
- Social and political issues
- Community College
- Psychotherapy
- Personality therapy | Baker-Miller, Gilligan, Brown
- Adlerian (Individual) Psychology
- Counseling theories
- Epistemology
- Humanistic psychology | Maslow
- Person-centered therapy
- Existential | Wertheimer, Koffka
- Gestalt Therapy | Kohler
- Multicultural counseling
- Analytical/Jungian Therapy
- Cognitive therapy
- Behaviorism
- Theorists: Descartes, Dostoyevsky, Kirkegaard, Newton, Neidegerr, Nietzsche, Fechner, Wundt, Sartre, Buber
- Person-Centered | Rogers
- Vector-field therapy | Lewin, Zeigarnik
- Needs Psychology | Horney
- Learning Theories | James, Thorndike, Hull, Bandura