CNSL 6420 Counseling and Helping Relationships

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

Students will be required to attend a one-day, fact-to-face residency experience as part of this course.

Registration Name

Counseling & Helping Relations

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Offered

Online: Fall

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will:

1. Apply critical thinking and reasoning strategies for clinical judgment in the counseling process.
2. Develop case conceptualization skills using a variety of models and approaches.
3. Implement culturally sustaining and responsive strategies for establishing and maintaining counseling relationships across service delivery modalities.
4. Identify counselor characteristics, behaviors, and strategies that facilitate effective counseling relationships.
5. Demonstrate interviewing, attending, and listening skills in the counseling process.
6. Apply counseling strategies and techniques used to facilitate the client change process.
7. Implement strategies for adapting and accommodating the counseling process to client culture, context, abilities, and preferences.
8. Collaborate on goal consensus and collaborative decision-making in the counseling process.
9. Develop developmentally relevant and culturally sustaining counseling treatment or intervention plans.
10. Establish development of measurable outcomes for clients.
11. Utilize evidence-based counseling strategies and techniques for prevention and intervention.
12. Demonstrate record-keeping and documentation skills.
13. Apply principles and strategies of caseload management and the referral process to promote independence, optimal wellness, empowerment, and engagement with community resources.
14. Implement suicide prevention and response models and strategies.
15. Utilize crisis intervention, trauma-informed, community-based, and disaster mental health strategies.
16. Engage in processes for developing a personal model of counseling grounded in theory and research.