PY665 Counseling Skills and Practice (2 cr.)

Prerequisite(s): Completion of core
Students practice the fundamental skills associated with effective helping relationships. Counseling skill acquisition and application are emphasized. Ethics and diversity are integrated into counseling skills acquisition and application.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Acquire a repertoire of basic counseling skills.
2. Develop an understanding of the stages of the counseling process and therapeutic relationships and to apply the counseling techniques most appropriate to each of these stages.
3. Apply general theoretical knowledge of the counseling process and the therapeutic relationship to practical counseling skills.
4. Develop basic skills for effective clinical interviewing, assessment, and case management.
5. Apply basic ethical principles in client therapist relationships.
6. Identify components of counselor self awareness that can be utilized in effective self-assessment.
7. Apply an awareness and appreciation of diversity to counseling.
8. Understand the significance of research evidence and community standards of practice in selecting counseling skills.