Clinical Skills: Foundations of Psychological Interventions

Catalog description

A laboratory-based clinical skills course designed to develop foundational interviewing and intervention skills essential to obtaining relevant clinical information, determining appropriate diagnoses, assessing and managing suicide risk, establishing an effective therapeutic relationship, and promoting behavior change. In addition, this course examines psychotherapy as a change agent. The empirical foundations of psychotherapy are addressed with an emphasis on practice implications of current therapy research on readiness for change, efficacy and effectiveness, client-therapist variables and the therapeutic relationship. In addition, consideration is given to issues relating to matching clients to therapy type as well as the theoretical, empirical, and practical consideration of essential mechanisms of change in psychotherapy.