Counseling Psychology Adjunct Faculty/ San Jose Campus Program

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Job Title: Counseling Psychology Adjunct Faculty/ San Jose Campus Program Job Summary: Job Summary: The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private, urban university with a global perspective that educates leaders who will fashion a more human and just world. The core mission of the University is to promote learning in the Jesuit tradition. The University offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional students the knowledge and skills needed to succeed and the values and sensitivity necessary to serve others. The University draws from the cultural, intellectual, and economic resources of the San Francisco Bay Area and its location on the Pacific Rim to enrich and strengthen its educational programs. Department of Counseling Psychology Mission Statement The Department of Counseling Psychology at the University of San Francisco School of Education prepares culturally responsive and compassionate school counselors, relationship and family therapists, and mental health counselors who advance social change in school and community settings through clinical practice and counseling services, advocacy, and leadership. The Department of Counseling Psychology collectivizes faculty, student, and community strengths to promote diversity, collaboration, and equity to address pressing and future community needs. Description: Students in the Department of Counseling Psychology graduate with a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology with a specialization in either Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) or School Counseling. MFTgraduates are eligible to gain hours for licensure through the Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) for the MFT. School Counseling graduates receive their Pupil Personnel Services (PPS) Credential from the California Commission of Teacher Credentialing upon completion of the program. Graduates of both programs have the option of gaining eligibility for the License in Professional Clinical Counseling. Full Job Description: CPSY 630- Individual and Systems Assessment (3) Course includes exposure to a variety of assessment procedures including structured interviews, standardized and non-standardized tests, and behavioral assessment. Special emphasis will be on assessment of couples, family, and parent-child interaction using empirically validated models. CPSY 634- Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues (3) Course features the roles and responsibilities of Marriage and Family Therapists according to the laws and ethical principles governing practice. Particular emphasis will be given to the ethics codes of major professional associations, family law and statutes covering mental health practice for MFT's in California, and legal mandates pertaining to children in schools. CPSY 639- Individual and Family Psychopathology (3) Course includes an understanding of individuals and family psychopathology through the examination of a variety of models, with a focus on the interaction of culture, economics and diagnosis. Basic knowledge of the diagnostic process and criteria associated with diagnostic categories in the DSM -5 are explored. Students are provided with opportunities to interact with mental health consumers. CPSY 657- Individual and Family Lifespan Development (3) Overview of theory and research on the psychological, biological, and social aspects of human growth and development across the lifespan, with attention to family development and dynamics. Relationship of developmental concepts to counseling strategies in school and family counseling. CPSY 677- Counseling Across Cultures (3) Course features an understanding of multicultural issues in counseling with diverse ethnic groups, cultures, and social classes in American society. Emphasis is on developing cultural sensitivity to one's own cultural value system and the values and attitudes of diverse groups in cross-cultural counseling settings; increasing awareness of the effects that culture, race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation have on human development and the counseling process; and on learning effective counseling strategies and generic counseling methods that accommodate a diversity of cultures. CPSY 631 - Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy (3) This course provides an overview of the theories in counseling and psychotherapy and the elements of effective interventions associated with these theories. CPSY 642 - Counseling Methods (3) This course provides an overview of foundational counseling skills and interventions used across theories of counseling and psychotherapy. CPSY 650 - Trauma and Crisis Counseling (3) This course provides an overview of trauma and crisis theories as well as training in the use of necessary skills and interventions used to address trauma and crises in diverse populations. CPSY 687- Family Systems Therapy (3) The course features the understanding and application of evidence-based family systems models, such as strategic, structural, cognitive and behavioral. Practice includes the integration an

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