COUN 7840 - Adv Issues/Technique Coun Athl

Credit Hours: 3

This course is twofold. One, the course is designed to prepare students for the roles as professionals in the field. Areas of study include professional ethics and legal issues, record keeping, NCAA guidelines, and working as part of an interdisciplinary team or as a consultant with individual athletes, teams and athletic organizations. Additionally, this course is designed for students to improve their career development, counseling, and skill building techniques with youth, adolescents, young adult and the adult athlete population. Participants have an opportunity to develop and practice strategies to enhance their effectiveness in counseling this unique cultural group. This course includes supervised fieldwork related to sports counseling, consultation, and/or sports counseling programming with the athlete population of your choice. Students will be on site for a minimum of 25 hours. Students will receive a minimum of one-hour supervision per week by the on-site supervisor. In addition, students will be required to attend group supervision, via the use of technology, once a week where students will present cases.