This course is an overall compilation of growth of student as a counselling psychologist-in-training. The creation of a portfolio represents the accumulated clinical and learning experiences during the process of earning a Master of Education in counselling psychology. The Portfolio also represents a professional who is ready for licensing and set to provide culturally sensitive and ethically grounded services for clients in educational and non-educational settings.

 Competency areas include the following, in addition to one course from specialization area: Computer Application in Education; Human Lifespan Development; Guidance and Counselling in Ghana; Research Methods in Education, Theories of Counselling and Application; Group Counselling – Theories, Procedures, and Dynamics; Legal and Ethical Issues in Counselling Psychology, and Techniques in Counselling.

This course will treat the nature and scope of counselling practicum. A review of various procedures of preparing the counselling practicum; the theoretical basis of various counselling theories and their associated techniques. Again, the course will take a look at the skills and their practical application in counselling.

The human today is bedevilled with multiple and varied problems in life. These have to do with counsellors helping to improve the well-being of individuals to help them make informed decisions about intra and inter-personal issues.   This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts, historical background and principles of counselling psychology.  Students will be introduced to some basic assumptions and concepts undergirding the counselling psychology profession.

This course provides a historical and theoretical overview of major counselling psychology theories.  Students study the history of the discipline of counselling and are exposed to contemporary models of counselling that are consistent with current professional research and sensitive to our multicultural context, to assist them in beginning to develop their own model of counselling.