EXAMPLE: School Counseling
Portfolio Part B: Comprehensive Study Guide: Final Submission
SPCE 630: Research Methods for Behavior Analysis
BACB 6th Edition Test Content Outline Items to Cover
*Changed to PRAXIS school counseling exam for example*
A.3. Understanding the purposes and theories of individual counseling and applies
them appropriately
A.4. Understanding the purposes and theories of group counseling and applies them
appropriately
A.9. Knows methods of gathering relevant data to assist in selecting appropriate
lessons, interventions, and activities
A.10. Is familiar with basic principles, interpretation, and psychometrics of
measurement
A.11. Understands how to select and appropriately implement direct services
A.16. Knows the potential impact of cultural, social, and environmental influences on
student test performance, accommodations, and interpretation
B.1. Knows major theories regarding human development throughout the lifespan
B.4 Knows major theories regarding personality and emotional development
throughout the human life span
B.5. Knows major theories regarding social and character development throughout the
human life span
B.6. Is familiar with major theories regarding family systems
C.1. Understands and applies the current ASCA ethical standards for school counselors.
C.8. Is familiar with the appropriate constitutional rights as they apply to educational
settings
C.9. Understanding the duty to warn and the difference between privileged
communication and confidentiality
, Outline
In this section, provide a comprehensive outline for the BACB Test Content Outline items
above. Cleary identify each area covered. You may only use content from this course. You
may use your textbook, assigned articles, lectures, or instructional materials. You may
not use content from outside of this course.
Start outline here
A.3.
o Cognitive and behavioral theories focus on how an individuals thinks and
behaves and how this may create maladaptive patterns and effect one’s
emotional state.
Additionally, third wave cbt adds in mindfulness to help with emotion
regulation.
o Counseling from these theories often involves homework to further implement
strategies.
o Roger’s person centered therapy, however, is client led and focuses on creating
an environment for the client to succeed and self actualize.
o Narrative theory and therapy focuses on how individuals interact with others
and their mindset of situations.
A.4.
o Group counseling can help teacher larger groups of students skills and give
them group support. This may allow them to feel seen by peers who are
experiencing similar situations and changes to work on skills with each other.
Additionally, social emotional learning groups may have children who
are already skilled in those areas who can act as a model for other
children.
A.9.
o Looking at past students scores, observations, interviews with the student,
teacher, and parent are all strategies that can help an individual narrow down
what interventions might be the most impactful.
A.10.
o This consists of being able to interpret graphs that document longitudinal data
to show improvement based on intervention and data compared to normed
curves.
o This also involves being able to understand and discuss data in the form of z-,
t-, scaled, and standard scores. It is also crucial to factor in how a clients culture
and language use may effects these results.
A.11.
o When starting an intervention, it is key to look at what services you can provide
and what the child needs. Sometimes, if large trends are present, this may mean
starting a group counseling program over topics such as grief, social emotional
, skills, and responsibility/organization.
Additionally, it is key to have an understanding of the child’s culture
and if they need a different intervention or counselor who will better.
A.16.
o Assessments are both culturally and language latent. Children’s past
experiences can have major impacts on results in ways that invalidate them.
o Therefore, it is crucial to have an in-depth history of the child to best
understand what assessments will be the most valid to use and how to best get
the most accurate results.
o Culture also plays a key role in how comfortable people may feel with
accommodations and eligibility diagnosis and therefore you may have to have
additional conversations and/or use dialogue that is comfortable with those
individuals.
B.1.
o The text in Brown et al. 2017 covers both the ACA 2014 Code of Ethics and the
ASCA Ethical Code for School Counselors in depth. For the ASCA code, a
guideline for how school counselors should go through ethical dilemmas is
provided and includes:
defining the problem
applying ethical codes and laws
considering students age, chronological and developmental
considering the setting and parental/minor rights
applying morals
figuring out plans and their consequences
evaluating the plan
consulting
implementing the plan.
B.4
o Eriksons theory of identity development has 8 stages; trust vs mistrust,
autonomy vs shame, initiative vs guilt, industry vs inferiority, identity vs
diffusion, intimacy vs isolation, generatively vs self-absorption, and integrity vs
despair.
o Marcia also developed 4 stages of identity formation that focus on exploration
and confidence in one’s own identity. These include:
Diffusion
Foreclosure
Moratorium
Achievement
B.5.
o Overall, common ideas of children as scientists who have beliefs and test them
through experience, which is closely tied to constructionist theory.
Portfolio Part B: Comprehensive Study Guide: Final Submission
SPCE 630: Research Methods for Behavior Analysis
BACB 6th Edition Test Content Outline Items to Cover
*Changed to PRAXIS school counseling exam for example*
A.3. Understanding the purposes and theories of individual counseling and applies
them appropriately
A.4. Understanding the purposes and theories of group counseling and applies them
appropriately
A.9. Knows methods of gathering relevant data to assist in selecting appropriate
lessons, interventions, and activities
A.10. Is familiar with basic principles, interpretation, and psychometrics of
measurement
A.11. Understands how to select and appropriately implement direct services
A.16. Knows the potential impact of cultural, social, and environmental influences on
student test performance, accommodations, and interpretation
B.1. Knows major theories regarding human development throughout the lifespan
B.4 Knows major theories regarding personality and emotional development
throughout the human life span
B.5. Knows major theories regarding social and character development throughout the
human life span
B.6. Is familiar with major theories regarding family systems
C.1. Understands and applies the current ASCA ethical standards for school counselors.
C.8. Is familiar with the appropriate constitutional rights as they apply to educational
settings
C.9. Understanding the duty to warn and the difference between privileged
communication and confidentiality
, Outline
In this section, provide a comprehensive outline for the BACB Test Content Outline items
above. Cleary identify each area covered. You may only use content from this course. You
may use your textbook, assigned articles, lectures, or instructional materials. You may
not use content from outside of this course.
Start outline here
A.3.
o Cognitive and behavioral theories focus on how an individuals thinks and
behaves and how this may create maladaptive patterns and effect one’s
emotional state.
Additionally, third wave cbt adds in mindfulness to help with emotion
regulation.
o Counseling from these theories often involves homework to further implement
strategies.
o Roger’s person centered therapy, however, is client led and focuses on creating
an environment for the client to succeed and self actualize.
o Narrative theory and therapy focuses on how individuals interact with others
and their mindset of situations.
A.4.
o Group counseling can help teacher larger groups of students skills and give
them group support. This may allow them to feel seen by peers who are
experiencing similar situations and changes to work on skills with each other.
Additionally, social emotional learning groups may have children who
are already skilled in those areas who can act as a model for other
children.
A.9.
o Looking at past students scores, observations, interviews with the student,
teacher, and parent are all strategies that can help an individual narrow down
what interventions might be the most impactful.
A.10.
o This consists of being able to interpret graphs that document longitudinal data
to show improvement based on intervention and data compared to normed
curves.
o This also involves being able to understand and discuss data in the form of z-,
t-, scaled, and standard scores. It is also crucial to factor in how a clients culture
and language use may effects these results.
A.11.
o When starting an intervention, it is key to look at what services you can provide
and what the child needs. Sometimes, if large trends are present, this may mean
starting a group counseling program over topics such as grief, social emotional
, skills, and responsibility/organization.
Additionally, it is key to have an understanding of the child’s culture
and if they need a different intervention or counselor who will better.
A.16.
o Assessments are both culturally and language latent. Children’s past
experiences can have major impacts on results in ways that invalidate them.
o Therefore, it is crucial to have an in-depth history of the child to best
understand what assessments will be the most valid to use and how to best get
the most accurate results.
o Culture also plays a key role in how comfortable people may feel with
accommodations and eligibility diagnosis and therefore you may have to have
additional conversations and/or use dialogue that is comfortable with those
individuals.
B.1.
o The text in Brown et al. 2017 covers both the ACA 2014 Code of Ethics and the
ASCA Ethical Code for School Counselors in depth. For the ASCA code, a
guideline for how school counselors should go through ethical dilemmas is
provided and includes:
defining the problem
applying ethical codes and laws
considering students age, chronological and developmental
considering the setting and parental/minor rights
applying morals
figuring out plans and their consequences
evaluating the plan
consulting
implementing the plan.
B.4
o Eriksons theory of identity development has 8 stages; trust vs mistrust,
autonomy vs shame, initiative vs guilt, industry vs inferiority, identity vs
diffusion, intimacy vs isolation, generatively vs self-absorption, and integrity vs
despair.
o Marcia also developed 4 stages of identity formation that focus on exploration
and confidence in one’s own identity. These include:
Diffusion
Foreclosure
Moratorium
Achievement
B.5.
o Overall, common ideas of children as scientists who have beliefs and test them
through experience, which is closely tied to constructionist theory.
