COUN 510 Counseling Techniques

Basic principles and techniques in the counseling process. This course is designed to help students acquire and develop skills essential to the helping process. Core elements include: the nature of the helping relationship, introduction to basic counseling skills, and exploring attitudes and beliefs involved in developing and maintaining the helping relationship and how these fundamental core elements apply to the counselor. Emphasis will also be placed on practitioner self-awareness and self-care. Role-playing videotape experiences and other skill development exercises will be included.

Credits

3

Outcomes

1. Practicing essential interviewing, counseling, and case conceptualization skills.
2. Utilizing ethical and culturally relevant strategies for establishing and maintaining relationships.
3. Exploring and reflecting on counselor characteristics and behaviors that influence the counseling process.
4. The impact of technology on the counseling process.
5. The multiple professional roles and functions of counselors across specialty areas, and their relationships with human service and integrated behavioral health care systems, including interagency and interorganizational collaboration and consultation