Johns Hopkins University Offers graduate degrees in Education:

Organizational Counseling

This certificate in the emerging field of organizational counseling prepares students to provide consultation and counseling services in organizational settings. The Department of Counseling and Human Services offers training to professional counselors and others in the human services management and business communities who have completed a master's degree in counseling or its equivalent.

Designed for active, working adults, core organizational counseling courses are offered online with monthly classroom learning modules. Students must have access to a computer with an Internet connection. The program provides students with an integrative understanding of workplace-related issues and expertise in counseling skills. A concentration in career development is possible. Contact the adviser for information.

While program participants are required to complete a minimum 15 graduate credits within three years, the certificate can be completed in one calendar year.

Admission

Applicants must hold a master's degree in counseling or a closely related field. Students must show completion of graduate-level work in the following content areas:

  • career counseling, including career development and planning;
  • principles of tests and assessments;
  • diagnosis and treatment planning
  • cross-cultural counseling.

Applications must be postmarked by July 15 in order to begin the program as part of the fall cohort.

Requirements

Three elective credits may be chosen with program adviser approval. Many of these elective courses are offered on weekends or as part of the department's Summer Seminar Series.

 

  • 860.586 Organizational Context and Workplace Culture

    This course provides students with a basic orientation to organizational culture and includes a presentation of variations in workplace structure and context. Through a distance education format, students explore the complex nature of organizations. Topics of study include an overview of functional areas of business, human resource roles and policies, and a basic understanding of organizational development, behavior, and management issues. This course must be taken before or concurrently with the organizational counseling core courses. (1 credits)

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  • 861.621 Counseling and Organizational Behavior (Part I)

    Students learn counseling and organizational behavior theories and models to address communication and relationships within organizational settings. The course emphasizes organizational counseling, negotiation and conflict resolution, problem solving, and decision making; stress, burnout, and violence; cross-cultural and gender awareness; leadership, executive coaching and mentoring; and team building. Participants explore issues impacting on employee performance and the provision of employee assistance services, assessment and referral, brief behavioral counseling, addiction assessment and counseling, career issues, work and family issues, crisis intervention, consultation and collaboration, prevention program design, and related content. The course is taught in a distance education format supplemented with weekend class meetings held monthly over the course of two semesters.

    Notes: Part I offered fall semester; Part II offered spring semester. Students cannot register for Part II without first completing Part I. This course is limited to students in the Organizational Counseling programs. Students in the Master’s program must have completed Phase I before registering for this course . (3 credits)

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  • 861.622 Counseling and Organizational Behavior (Part II)

    Students learn counseling and organizational behavior theories and models to address communication and relationships within organizational settings. The course emphasizes organizational counseling, negotiation and conflict resolution, problem solving and decision making; stress, burnout, and violence; cross-cultural and gender awareness; leadership, executive coaching and mentoring; and team building. Participants explore issues impacting on employee performance and the provision of employee assistance services, assessment and referral, brief behavioral counseling, addiction assessment and counseling, career issues, work and family issues, crisis intervention, consultation and collaboration, prevention program design, and related content. This course is taught in a distance education format supplemented with weekend class meetings held monthly over the course of two semesters.

    Notes: Tuition includes materials fee. This course is limited to students in the Organizational Counseling programs. Students in the Master’s program must have completed Phase I before registering for this course. (3 credits)

    Prerequisite(s): ED.861.621

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  • 861.619 Organizational Consultation

    Behavioral workplace consultation and counseling approaches are emphasized, along with employee assistance, needs assessment, goal and objective identification, and program planning and evaluation. Students examine the role of the organizational consultant and apply current theoretical models that are used to analyze organizational behavior. Participants learn about phases of the change management process and intervention strategies. Included topics are transformational leadership, vision/goals, motivation, diversity, culture, roles, power, authority, problem solving/decision making, and communication. Assessments suitable for organizational settings are explored. Students are introduced to grant and proposal writing, as well as strategies to market their services. This course is taught in a distance education format supplemented with weekend class meetings held monthly over the course of one semester.

    Notes: Tuition includes materials fee. This course is limited to students in the Organizational Counseling programs. Students in the Master’s program must have completed Phase I before registering for this course. (3 credits)

    Prerequisite(s): ED.861.621

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  • 861.618 Organizational Counseling: Integrating Theory and Practice

    Students participate in a capstone/internship experience to blend the theories and practices studied in the courses in the Organizational Counseling Post-Graduate Certificate Program. Emphasis is on applying theories and models for the delivery of workplace human services and the provision of organizational consultation within a new paradigm for organizational counseling. Students complete an applied project as part of the requirements for this course. (2 credits)

    Prerequisite(s): ED.861.619 AND ED.861.622

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