TPC-Journal-V1-Issue1

8 The Professional Counselor \ Volume 1, Issue 1 The proposed National Counseling Professional Program (NCPP) will be at the bachelor’s level and four semesters long. A unique prerequisite of this program is that applicants must already hold one of these bachelors’ degrees: education, psychology, social work, sociology, industrial engineering, philosophy, pedagogy, or physician. The proposed NCPP will be organized into core areas and will educate counseling professionals according to the following general objectives: 1. Educate professional counselors to satisfy the needs of the Counseling National System, its subsystems, and any other professional counseling contexts. 2. Develop critical, reflective, dialectical and dialogical counseling professionals. Understand theoretical and conceptual information related to the counseling field and its interdisciplinary sources. 3. Acquire the theory based and applied competencies of the counseling profession in diverse contexts. 4. Understand Venezuelan counseling’s historical roots and its international origins. 5. Understand the ethical dimensions of the counseling profession and the legal characteristics of counseling practice. 6. Actively participate in the development of solidarity, participatory and responsible collectivist citizenship. 7. Articulate counseling professional actions with Venezuela’s social, cultural, and economic development. 8. Use the cultural and social bases of the counseling profession in creating lifelong counseling services. 9. Bond the training and practices of professional counselors with plans and guidelines for Venezuela’s cultural, social, and economic development. 10. Train professional counselors needed for the Venezuelan police. YEAR SEMESTER Individual Counseling and Consultation The counseling profession Counseling deontology Counseling supervision systems Traditional and emerging vocational and career counseling theories Exploration and assessment methods in counseling Counseling and consultation interview processes Group counseling theories and methods Pluricontextual counseling professional services Vocational and career planning choosing theories Life project and vocation in community and educational contexts Designing and evaluating counseling services, projects, and programs Interdisciplinary counseling and consultation theories, strategies and techniques Group counseling in educational contexts Counseling professional services in educational systems Counseling projects, programs and services in community and educational contexts Mental health counseling for individuals and communities Group counseling in community contexts Counseling professional services in communities and related centers Challenges and trends in counseling Life project and vocation in workplace contexts Counseling programs and services in workplace contexts Individual counseling and consultation Group counseling in workplace contexts Counseling professional services in workplaces and related environments Counseling Foundations Vocational and Career Development Counseling Contextual Counseling Projects, Programs, and Services Group Counseling and Consultation Counseling Internship I I II III II IV Table 1 Fast Track Bachelor’s Degree in Education: Counseling Major