Counseling Techniques and Skills

Catalog description

This course is intended to give the beginning counselor an opportunity to explore and focus on the practice of basic counseling skills and the experiential application of theories and basic techniques of counseling. This course includes in-class and outside class components. Class time will include instruction, demonstration of skills, student practice of skills, showing of students' videos, evaluation of students' work, and the giving of feedback by the professor and by class members. The outside class component requires small group cooperation in the making of a video each week to demonstrate the skills being taught and practiced.