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School Support
Program and Student Services
Guidance and Counselling: Training of School Counsellors
School divisions should ensure that persons fulfilling the role of school counsellor are adequately trained. It is recommended that school counsellors should have completed a 30-hour degree program in school counselling, including supervised practice in guidance counselling.
The University of Manitoba and Brandon University offer studies in guidance and counselling. For information contact: Websites/address of Universities
Areas of counsellor training include:
School Counselling
- Counselling theory, issues and practice
- Counselling in schools
Guidance and Counselling in the Schools
- Early years counselling
- Middle and senior years counselling
- Group guidance and counselling
- Psychology of human relationships
- Family life education
- Career information
- Career development theories
- Ethics in counselling
- Assessment for counsellors
- Intercultural counselling
- Current issues in counselling
Counselling Practicum
- Counselling skills
- Field placement in counselling
Counselling Electives
- Cross-cultural education
- Children's play
- Observing child behaviour
- Theory and practice of standardized tests
- Educational research methods
- Education of exceptional children
- Education of children with behaviour disorders