COUN5284 moves school counseling students from understanding the profession in principle (covered in COUN5280) to actually building and sustaining a comprehensive program in practice. The course is anchored in data-driven accountability — the idea that a school counseling program must be able to demonstrate its impact, not just describe its activities.
Program development, accountability, and the ASCA framework
Core topics
- Developing school counseling programs and services: The comprehensive process of building a school counseling program from identified needs through implemented services
- Data-driven decision-making: Using student and school data to identify needs, select interventions, and justify program priorities rather than relying on assumption or tradition
- Accountability: Building the systems needed to sustain a program over time and demonstrate its value to school stakeholders
- Evidence-based practices: Selecting interventions and programs supported by research evidence rather than convention alone
- Evaluation using the ASCA National Model: Applying the ASCA framework as the structuring tool for investigating needs, determining interventions, and evaluating program outcomes
COUN5284 assignments include needs assessments, ASCA-aligned program plans, and program evaluation reports
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Frequently asked questions
Building and evaluating a full school counseling program draws on several distinct skill sets that COUN5284 assumes students already have rather than teaching from scratch. COUN5239 (Theories of the Counseling Profession) provides the theoretical grounding for selecting interventions that are conceptually sound, not just procedurally correct. COUN-R5861 typically establishes foundational counseling skills students need before designing program-level interventions involving direct student contact. And COUN5241, covering related developmental or group-counseling content depending on the specific program track, fills in additional practice competencies the program-development work in COUN5284 draws on. Together, these prerequisites ensure a student walks into COUN5284 with the theoretical, skills-based, and developmental knowledge needed to design a data-driven, evidence-based program rather than a superficial one — the course is meant to integrate prior learning into a comprehensive program-level deliverable, not introduce these foundational competencies for the first time.