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Arts and Sciences | MA in Guidance and Clinical / Counseling Psychology

General Description

This course covers the understanding of the psychological factors that may underlie wellness and difficulties and the administration of interventions to deal with such factors and their effects.  It responds to the need for capability to draw up and administer relevant and functional guidance and counseling services and to handle in-depth problems appropriately and satisfyingly with sound theoretical and ethical bases.  The course offers all the subjects required for the licensure of Guidance Counselors and the accreditation of Counseling and Clinical Psychologists.

Objectives

The course aims to provide students with the ability to:

  1. select and implement appropriately-conceptualized intervention programs based on accurate and appropriate analysis of needs and concerns;

  2. manifest skills in the comprehensive and effective handling of clients and their concerns; and

  3. develop relevant and sufficiently functional guidance programs.

Curriculum

 

UNITS

BASIC/FOUNDATION SUBJECTS

12 units

QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES/BEHAVIORAL STATISTICS

3

PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH

3

LIFE TRANSITIONS

  3  

FAMILY RELATIONS AND PARENTING 3
   
MAJOR SUBJECTS 24 units
ORGANIZATIONAL AND MANAGEMENT OF GUIDANCE PROGRAMS 3
MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION (PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING) 3
COUNSELING TECHNIQUES 3
ADVANCE COUNSELING: THEORIES AND PRACTICES 3
ASSESSMENT 1: INDIVIDUAL TESTS AND MEASUREMENTS 3
GROUP PROCESS AND COUNSELING W/ PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT 3
CAREER DEVELOPMENT & COUNSELING 3
PSYCHOTHERAPY/COUNSELING SPECIAL POPULATIONS 3
   
ELECTIVES (3 units for Thesis; 9 units for Non-Thesis)  
ADVANCE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 3
ASSESSMENT II: PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES 3
COUPLE DYNAMICS AND THERAPY 3
FAMILY DYNAMICS AND THERAPY 3
EXPRESSIVE THERAPIES 3
COUNSELING CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS 3
CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS 3
SOCIO-CULTURAL INFLUENCES IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 3
FOUNDATIONS OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING 3
SEMINAR IN COUNSELING 3
   
PRACTICUM (360 Hours) 3
   
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION  
THESIS WRITING 6
PROJECT PAPER (NON-THESIS)

1


    Pre-requisites

Abnormal Psychology / Basic Psychiatry
Developmental Psychology
Theories of Personality

 Innovative Feature

 

Each of the courses can flow from the undergraduate program in Counseling and Psychology of St. Scholastica's College and can be finished on the Fifth Year.  Hence, M.S. subjects can be started on the Fourth Year of College.

 

Faculty

  • Maria Victoria F. Trinidad, Chairperson, Ph.D., De La Salle University

  • Alexia Abrenica, Ph.D., De La Salle University

  • Rosario Angela Bernad, MS, Ateneo de Manila University

  • Leni Carballo, MS, De La Salle University

  • Julian Montano, Ph.D., De La Salle University

  • Richard Pulmones, Ph.D., De La Salle University

  • Myrna Joyce Sanchez, MA, Ateneo de Manila University

  • Kathryn Sangalang, MBA, Ateneo de Manila University

  • John-John Simon, MBA, De La Salle University

  • Imelda Virginia Villar, Ph.D., University of Santo Tomas

Contact Us

 

Department of Psychology and Guidance & Counseling
Maria Victoria F. Trinidad, Ph.D., Chairperson

Phone: (02) 524-7686 local 230

 

Posted August 2007

 

Granted Full Autonomy Status by CHED and Level III Re-accreditation Status by PAASCU