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Graduate Certificate Counselling Applied to Teaching

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Graduate Certificate (Gr. Cert.) Counselling Applied to Teaching(15 Credits)

    Offered by:~Continuing Education-Educatio
    Degree:Gr Cert Couns Appl to Teaching

Program Requirement:

The goal of this program is to enhance teachers' knowledge and skills in interpersonal relations, communication, interviewing, group organization and leadership, crisis intervention, and career thinking and planning. Each of these knowledge areas addresses the recognition of situations when it is appropriate to make a referral to a personal or career counsellor, psychologist, or other professional. The program addresses both elementary and secondary education.

This graduate certificate does not qualify graduates to practise professional counselling or psychology (e.g., conducting psycho­logical assessments or psychotherapy), or to refer to themselves by the term Counsellor or Psychologist: these are legally reserved titles. Programs leading to licensing as Counsellor or Psychologist are presented under Educational and Counselling Psychology (Counselling Psychology and School/Applied Child Psychology) or Psychology (Clinical Psychology) in Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.

Required Courses (6 credits)


  • EDPC 542 Ld&Supp Roles of the Teacher 3 Credits
      Offered in the:
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • Summer

  • EDPC 562 Career as a Lifelong Process 3 Credits
      Offered in the:
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • Summer


Complementary Courses (9 credits)

Choose from the following:

Note: These or other courses may be offered in alternate years.


  • EDPC 501 Facilitating Relationships 3 Credits
      Offered in the:
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • Summer

  • EDPC 502 Group Processes and Diversity 3 Credits
      Offered in the:
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • Summer

  • EDPC 504 Commun&Critcal ConflictResltn 3 Credits
      Offered in the:
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • Summer

  • EDPC 505 Crisis Intervention Processes 3 Credits
      Offered in the:
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • Summer

  • EDPC 507 Advocacy,Outreach &Leadership 3 Credits
      Offered in the:
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • Summer

  • EDPI 543 Family, School and Community 3 Credits
      Offered in the:
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • Summer


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