Program
The Professional Development in Counseling Series, featuring well-known counselor education expert David Capuzzi, is designed exclusively for mental health professionals, marriage and family counselors, and addictions counselors, to help them expand their skills and meet continuing education requirements. Social workers, school psychologists, teachers, pastoral counselors, juvenile detention workers, psychiatric nurses, and psychologists also will find the content valuable in their therapeutic work with clients.
This professional development program has two major components:
- The fall and spring semester courses are two-day courses taught by Dr. David Capuzzi.
- The Summer Institute offers a large selection of two-day courses at various locations across Pennsylvania, featuring various expert instructors.
You can earn graduate credits or choose the noncredit option. The courses and workshops in this program are approved for continuing education hours from multiple professional associations and licensing boards.
The Featured Instructor
David Capuzzi, Ph.D., NCC, LPC, is a past president of the American Counseling Association (ACA), and he is an affiliate professor in the Department of Counselor Education, Counseling Psychology, and Rehabilitation Services at Penn State. He is professor emeritus and former coordinator of the Counselor Education program in the Graduate School of Education at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Prior to coming to Penn State, he served as Scholar in Residence in the Department of Counseling and Human Services at Johns Hopkins University.
From 1980 to 1984, Dr. Capuzzi was editor of The School Counselor. He has authored a number of textbook chapters and monographs on preventing adolescent suicide and is co-editor and author, with Dr. Larry Golden, of Helping Families Help Children: Family Interventions with School-Related Problems (1986) and Preventing Adolescent Suicide (1988). With Douglas R. Gross he co-authored and edited Youth at Risk: A Prevention Resource for Counselors, Teachers, and Parents (2008); Introduction to the Counseling Profession (2008); Introduction to Group Counseling (retitled Introduction to Group Work in 2006); and Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and Interventions (2007). Dr. Capuzzi’s most recently conceptualized texts are Approaches to Group Work: A Handbook for Practitioners (2003), Sexuality Counseling (2002), Suicide Across the Life Span (2004), Career Counseling: Foundations, Perspectives, and Applications (2006), and Foundations of Addictions Counseling (2008), the latter two co-edited with Mark D. Stauffer. He has authored or co-authored articles in a number of ACA-related journals.
A frequent speaker at professional conferences and institutes, Dr. Capuzzi has also consulted with school districts and community agencies on prevention and intervention strategies for adolescents at risk. He provides training on youth at risk, grief and loss, group work, components of helping relationships, and establishing therapeutic presence with clients. He is well-received as a presenter because of his expertise as a master teacher and his ability to connect with seminar and workshop participants.
Dr. Capuzzi is the first recipient of ACA's Kitty Cole Human Rights Award.
Requirements
To enroll in the program, you must have:
- completed a bachelor's degree program
Textbooks
You are responsible for purchasing the textbook(s) for each course in which you enroll. And you are encouraged to purchase and read the text(s) in advance of the first class meeting.
Textbooks can be purchased through the Penn State Bookstore by ordering online at http://psu.bkstore.com or by calling 814-863-3282. The bookstore will ship your order to your home or office. You may also purchase or order the texts at any retail or online bookstore.
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