2024-2025 Course Standards

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Essential standards (highlighted in green below) are big, powerful ideas that are necessary and essential for students to know to be successful in a course. Essential standards identify the appropriate verb and cognitive process intended for the student to accomplish. Essential standards provide value throughout a student's career, in other courses, and translate to the next level of education or world of work.

Objectives/Indicators (rows not highlighted in green below) provide another level of detail for each Essential Standard.

Adapted or Adopted Course includes essential standards and, in many cases, specific objectives/indicators aligned with business and industry standards and/or criteria for credentials or certifications. The course standards are designed using the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT). If the POL is a CTE State Assessment, the course is written at the level of the ESSENTIAL STANDARD and assesses the intended outcome of the sum of its objectives/indicators.

Career and Technical Education conducts all activities and procedures without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, gender, or disability. The responsibility to adhere to safety standards and best professional practices is the duty of the practitioners, teachers, students, and/or others who apply the contents of this document.

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  • Standard/Obj Number: The essential standard is denoted by the digits before the dot; objectives/indicators are indicated by the final 2 digits.
  • Standard/Objective: Essential standard and specific objective/indicator statements per essential standard. Each essential standard statement or specific objective/indicator begins with an action verb and makes a complete sentence when combined with The learner will be able to... Outcome behavior in each essential standard or objective/indicator statement is denoted by the verb plus its object.
  • Course Weight: Shows the relative importance of each essential standard or objective/indicator. Course weight is used to help determine the percentage of total class time that is spent on each objective/indicator.
  • RBT Designation: Classification of outcome behavior in essential standards and indicator statements in Dimensions according to the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy:
    Cognitive Process Dimension: 1 Remember, 2 Understand, 3 Apply, 4 Analyze, 5 Evaluate, 6 Create.
    Knowledge Dimension: A Factual Knowledge, B Conceptual Knowledge, C Procedural Knowledge.

FC14 Counseling and Mental Health II

Course Type: Adopted




Standard/Obj NumberStandard/ObjectiveCourse WeightRBT Designation
1.00Understand the counseling and mental health career pathway.10%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
1.01Understand the stigma related to mental health.2%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
1.02Understand the history of mental health theories and research.2%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
1.03Understand career paths, credentials, and licenses in family and consumer services.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
1.04Understand professional behaviors, ethics, and laws in providing counseling and mental health services.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.00Understand how the human brain functions.25%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.01Understand how the brain and nervous system function.6%B1 Conceptual Knowledge - Remember
2.02Understand how mental health affects well-being across the lifespan.7%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.03Understand the development of emotional literacy.8%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.04Understand effective practices for building positive mental health.4%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
3.00Analyze mental health theories and treatments.25%B4 Conceptual Knowledge - Analyze
3.01Apply theories of mental health development.8%B3 Conceptual Knowledge - Apply
3.02Analyze treatment options for mental health related services.7%B4 Conceptual Knowledge - Analyze
3.03Analyze the effect of technology on mental health research and treatment delivery.5%B4 Conceptual Knowledge - Analyze
3.04Analyze positive and strengths-based psychology.5%B4 Conceptual Knowledge - Analyze
4.00Analyze mental disorders.25%B4 Conceptual Knowledge - Analyze
4.01Understand the major classifications of mental health disorders.7%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
4.02Analyze how mental health disorders are assessed and diagnosed.6%B4 Conceptual Knowledge - Analyze
4.03Analyze specific mental disorders and their affect across the lifespan.6%B4 Conceptual Knowledge - Analyze
4.04Analyze substance abuse related disorders.6%B4 Conceptual Knowledge - Analyze
5.00Analyze social awareness issues related to teen violence.15%B4 Conceptual Knowledge - Analyze
5.01Understand the cycle of abuse.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
5.02Analyze the signs and effect of child abuse, domestic abuse, and dating violence.4%B4 Conceptual Knowledge - Analyze
5.03Analyze the effect of bullying on adolescent development.4%B4 Conceptual Knowledge - Analyze
5.04Analyze the impact of suicide on individual and family lives.4%B4 Conceptual Knowledge - Analyze