Graduate Catalog 2021-2022

CNSL 6420 Counseling & Helping Relationships

This course focuses on the stages of the helping relationship. Students apply basic and advanced counseling skills in video-taped role plays. Students learn to assist clients in identifying problems that provides the focus for counseling and implement a treatment plan. A primary focus will be on methods, interventions, and skills essential to counseling.

Credits

3

Student Learning Outcomes

Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course students will:

1. Apply strategies for personal and professional self-evaluation and implications for practice
2. Apply ethical and culturally relevant strategies for establishing and maintaining in-person and technology-assisted relationships
3. Know the counselor characteristics and behaviors that influence the counseling process
4. Apply essential interviewing, counseling, and case conceptualization skills
5. Apply developmentally relevant counseling treatment or intervention plans
6. Understand the development of measurable outcomes for clients
7. Apply processes for aiding students in developing a personal model of counseling
8. Apply techniques and interventions for prevention and treatment of a broad range of mental health issues