This model envisions the professional school counselor as a program manager who has the skills to assess, develop, improve, manage, and evaluate a counseling program that is comprehensive and based on the development of student competencies. The foci of the comprehensive program are developmental (activities provided for all students to foster their development), preventive (activities centered on the identification of students who are highly at risk of acquiring blocks to their development and removal of those blocks), and remedial (activities to help students who are struggling with problems that are impeding their development). The school counseling program at Cleveland State University is a forty-eight-semester- hour concentration leading to a Master of Education degree. There are two paths to licensure as a school counselor in the State of Ohio. One track is for licensed or certified teachers and the other track is for non- teachers.

There are two separate clinical, field-based courses. The first is CNS 680, Counseling Practicum. This is a one-semester course requiring 100 hours of clinical field experience. Counseling Practicum is offered in the fall and spring semesters. The second clinical, field-based experience is CNS 685, Internship in School Counseling. This is an intensive, two-consecutive-semester learning experience of supervised counseling in a school setting. Internship is offered as a fall- spring sequence only. Prerequisites for Practicum and Internship are listed under the course descriptions in this Catalog. Prerequisites are strictly enforced by counseling faculty.