Comm & Counseling Skills

Catalog description

This course examines the counseling and psychotherapeutic theories and techniques of practice used by professional marriage and family counselors and art psychotherapists in a culturally diverse society. The course provides an orientation to wellness and prevention, counseling theories to assist in selection of appropriate counseling interventions, models of counseling consistent with current professional research, and practice and development of a personal model of counseling. This course teaches students to be familiar with a broad range of matters that may arise within marriage and family relationships and prepares them to be able to apply a variety of effective psychotherapeutic techniques and modalities to improve, restore, and maintain healthy individual, couple, and family relationships. Examination of areas such as selfawareness, feelings, self-concepts, implicit and explicit communication, and perception assists in developing a greater understanding of interpersonal skills needed in therapeutic relationships.