This Course and Program Catalogue is effective from May 2024 to April 2025.

Not all courses described in the Course and Program Catalogue are offered each year. For a list of course offerings in 2024-2025, please consult the class search website.

The following conventions are used for course numbering:

  • 010-099 represent non-degree level courses
  • 100-699 represent undergraduate degree level courses
  • 700-999 represent graduate degree level courses

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SCP 810.3: Ethics in Counselling and School Psychology

Addresses ethical issues in school and counselling psychology as related to practice, research, and teaching. The course assists students in preparing to meet the requirements for licensure in psychology.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours


SCP 811.3: Psychology of the Individual Assessing and Supporting Individual Development and Psychopathology

Focuses on those variables that increase the vulnerability of children and youth to psychopathology and on the ways in which protective factors combine and interact to promote resilience. Focuses on those variables that increase the vulnerability of children and youth to psychopathology and the ways in which protective factors combine and interact to promote resilience. Particular attention will be paid to distinctive cultures, geographic and social settings, and histories of adversity of Indigenous peoples.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours


SCP 812.3: Cognitive Affective Bases of Behavior Assessing and Supporting Cognitive and Affective Development

Focuses on an in-depth and critical study of cognitive and affective processes, and the acquisition of assessment skills as they relate to both understanding and assessing cognitive and affective processes, psychopathology, wellness, and developing culturally appropriate assessments in partnership with Indigenous communities.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours and 3 Practicum/Lab hours


SCP 813.3: Cognitive Affective Bases of Behaviour Assessing and Supporting Learning and Language Development

Focuses on providing students basic knowledge of language and literacy development and advanced assessment knowledge related to academic achievement and psychological processes hindering or enhancing academic performance. Emphasis will be placed on early identification, formal/ informal/ dynamic assessments, intervention design, understanding the impact of colonization, and developing and/or using culturally appropriate assessments.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of Term 1 of the Master's program in School and Counselling Psychology, including SCP 811 and 812.


SCP 814.3: Individual Interventions

Explores human change theories and the application of corresponding interventions within the practice of school and counselling psychology.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours and 3 Practicum/Lab hours
Prerequisite(s): EPSE 417 and enrolment in the School and Counselling Psychology program.


SCP 816.3: Social Bases of Behaviour Group Interventions in Schools and Communities

Provides students with understanding of group, community, and cultural dynamics/ processes and competencies to facilitate counselling and psychoeducational groups in varied environments (i.e., community, schools, etc.). Particular attention will be paid on how to co-facilitate cross-cultural knowledge with participants from differing cultural groups (e.g., Indigenous Elders, parents, school communities).

Prerequisite(s): SCP 812 and admission to the Master's program in School and Counselling Psychology.


SCP 817.3: Career and Transition Planning

Explores the systemic nature of career within the context of demographic, labour market, and global economic trends. The primary objective is to develop the understandings and competencies required to provide career services, from a resiliency/wellness perspective, to a wide range of clients.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): Enrolment in the Master's program in School and Counselling Psychology or permission of the instructor.


SCP 818.3: Practicum I

Under the supervision of faculty members working in coordinated teams, students provide integrated school and counselling psychology services to children and youth in a university clinic setting.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of year 1 of the Master's program in School and Counselling Psychology.


SCP 819.3: Practicum II

Under the direct and regular supervision of school and agency-based psychologists and therapists in consultation with faculty, students provide school and/or counselling psychology services to children and youth.

Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of SCP 818 and admission to the Master's program in School and Counselling.


SCP 898.3: Special Topics

Topics for individual study are selected by the student in consultation with a faculty advisor. The study may take the form of an extensive report or a project which is evaluated by the faculty member. The area must be one which is not covered by an existing graduate course.

Permission of instructor and head of department required.


SCP 899.N/A: Special Topics

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.


SCP 990.0: Seminar in School and Counselling Psychology and Professional Identity

This non-credit seminar course for graduate students in School and Counselling Psychology in the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education introduces the academic and nonacademic aspects of graduate studies, the profession and practice of school and counselling psychology, and the concept of professional identity.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master's program in School and Counselling Psychology.


SCP 991.N/A: Professional Practice Seminar

Provides a forum in which students are supported in their practicum placements through team collaboration and supervision and in which they benefit from the experiences of their colleagues in a variety of practicum settings.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of Year 1 of the Master's program in School and Counselling Psychology.
Corequisite(s): SCP 818 and 819.


SCP 994.0: Research – Thesis

A student undertaking research leading to a Master's thesis must register in this course each year until the thesis is completed. This applies to thesis work done extramurally as well as intramurally.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master's program in School and Counselling Psychology.