Interventions and Student Support ((3))

Catalog description

This course focuses on the skills necessary for effective group interventions in college and/or university settings for successful student affairs educators and higher education professionals. Topics to be discussed include: helping skills, crisis management skills, referral skills, dealing with difficult students and other stakeholders, group and organizational intervention. Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate self-awareness, sensitivity to others, and skillfulness in relating to individuals and groups through membership in, and facilitation of, small groups. The importance of socio-psychological concepts of group formation, reference groups, inter-group and intra-group relations and conflict will be addressed.