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MEd - Counselling

MEd Counselling – 48h non-thesis/51h thesis

The Counselling program is intended for teachers pursuing a career in school counselling and others pursuing a career in counselling through various agencies. Full-time students begin the program in July and generally study for 14 months if following the non-thesis route. Thesis students should expect to spend additional time in their program.

Note: Only students accepted into the Counselling program are eligible to take core courses. The Director of the School of Education, in consultation with the course instructor may give special permission to take a core course to those students who possess a relevant counselling background.

This Counselling Program is:

• Dedicated to the preparation of leaders of the counselling profession through the pursuit of disciplined inquiry, the understanding of and respect for human diversity, and the development, use and evaluation of effective counselling practices;
• Devoted to the prevention, remediation and amelioration of emotional, cognitive, behavioural, and interpersonal difficulties, and the enhancement of human potential and quality of life;
• Focussed on integrating theory, practice and research, with the awareness and skills to work with diverse populations from individual, social, and organizational perspectives;
• Conceived from an integrative theoretical orientation. Students are exposed to a wide variety of counselling approaches including existential, person-centred, cognitive-behavioural, narrative, and family-systems;
• Designed around accreditation standards and designed to prepare professionals for a variety of work settings and for provincial registration in Nova Scotia and for national certification.

Overall requirements for all students: (36h)

EDUC 5513 – Research Design or EDUC 50G3 – Research Literacy

EDUC 5003 – Human Development and Learning

EDUC 50D3 – Professional Issues in Counselling

EDUC 5033 – Theories of Counselling

EDUC 5066 – Seminar and Practicum in Counselling

EDUC 5133 – Counselling Skills

EDUC 5303 – Principles of Assessment

EDUC 50F3 – Counselling Pre-Practicum

EDUC 5543 – Work, Life and Planning Counselling

EDUC 5583 – Counselling Strategies and Interventions

EDUC 5623 – Group Counselling: Theory and Practice

 
Additional recommended courses for School Counselling Stream: (6h)

EDUC 50C3 – School Counselling Programs

EDUC 50E3 – Counselling Adolescents and Children

 
Additional recommended courses for Agency Stream: (6h)

EDUC 5233 – Counselling Families

EDUC 5553 – Topics in Counselling

Non-thesis students – Additional requirements: 6h electives selected from graduate courses offered by the School of Education or approved graduate courses offered by other departments or schools.

Non thesis students may substitute EDUC 50G3 – Research Literacy for EDUC 5513 – Research Design as their required research course.

Thesis students – Additional requirements: (9h)

EDUC 5966 – Graduate Thesis

EDUC 5113 – Qualitative Research in Education or EDUC 5523 – Educational Statistics