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Adlerians have a long history of working in school settings. After World War I, Alfred Adler founded over 30 child guidance clinics in Vienna to train parents, students and teachers to live cooperatively in a participatory democracy. In the early 1930s, Oskar Spiel founded an Adlerian-based school in Vienna at the same time that Rudolf Dreikurs was bringing Adlerian concepts to the United States and teaching educators about democratically-oriented class meetings, natural and logical consequences, and the use of encouragement as a motivating strategy. In more recent years, Jane Nelsen, Don Dinkmeyer, Sr., Gary McKay, Linda Albert, and others in the United States have furthered the principles of Adlerian psychology as they relate to children.
The School Counseling Program at AGS guides its graduates toward acquisition of the knowledge and skills needed to provide competent counseling in K-12 school settings. Students complete a course of study in the following areas: research; statistics and psychometrics; developmental psychology; ethics; counseling diverse children; individual, group and career counseling skills; counseling for exceptional children; introductory and advanced theories of Adlerian Psychology; and introductory and advanced methods of school counseling. Students are immersed in the ASCA National Model througout their entire educational program. Instruction is provided in classroom, small group, practicum and internship settings.
The AGS school counseling program is fully approved by the Minnesota Board of Teaching to prepare persons for school counselor licensure.
For more information contact:
Evelyn Haas
Director of Admissions & Student Services
612-861-7554 Ext. 103
ev@alfredadler.edu
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