Helping Skills: Theory and Practice

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What does it mean to help someone? What specific skills can we use to help people feel seen, heard, and understood? This course provides students with in-depth exposure to theories and research regarding effective helping relationships, with a focus on applications to counseling and psychotherapy. Students will learn skills used to assist others in exploring feelings and thoughts, gaining insight, and taking action. Students will practice helping skills with each other and will conduct research projects evaluating their helping skills. This course will also emphasize students' explorations of their own and others' biases, beliefs, and stigmas related to sociocultural and social justice issues that affect helping skills. Prerequisite: PSYC B205