COUN 530 - Counseling & Helping Relationships: Residency I

Credits: 4.5

This course provides an overview and training in foundational helping and essential interviewing skills, case-conceptualization, and consultation skills. The course focuses on the development of helping skills through instruction and experiential exercises including videotaped practice sessions. Emphasis on techniques and skills including developing a treatment alliance, active listening, reflection, formulation of questions, and addressing such issues as resistance to treatment and personal biases. These helping skills and effective counselor behaviors will be considered in terms of both face-to-face and technology-assisted helping relationships. Core ethical issues (confidentiality, therapist competence, client consent, collaboration, and multicultural competence) will be introduced. Instructor and peer feedback will be given. This is an experiential course that will emphasize recorded practice sessions with classmates. It will equip students with basic skills to develop and maintain helping relationships. The course requires 2, weekend long, virtual, synchronous residency experiences. Student must be accepted into the CMHC program to register.

Prerequisites: COUN 500