COUN 535 Crisis Counseling

This course provides an understanding of the theory and practice of crisis intervention, short term crisis and its counseling intervention strategies, and the responsibilities of the therapeutic milieu in crisis intervention.

Credits

3

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Counselors’ roles and responsibilities as members of interdisciplinary community outreach and emergency management response teams.
2. Evidence-based counseling strategies and techniques for prevention and intervention.
3. Strategies to promote client understanding of and access to a variety of community-based resources.
4. Suicide prevention models and strategies.
5. Crisis intervention, trauma-informed, and community-based strategies, such as Psychological First Aid.
6. Processes for aiding students in developing a personal model of counseling.
7. Procedures for assessing risk of aggression or danger to others, self-inflicted harm, or suicide.
8. Impact of crisis and trauma on individuals with mental health diagnoses.