PY724 Counseling Skills and Practice (3 cr.)

Prerequisite(s): PY613  
In this course 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.  Students articulate the role and use of supervision and consultation in developing counseling competencies.

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

1. Apply counseling skills.
2. Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of diversity to counseling.
3. Evaluate ethical standards, legal principles, and current trends within therapeutic practice.
4. Apply general theoretical knowledge of the counseling process and the therapeutic relationship to practical counseling skills.
5. Develop basic skills for effective clinical interviewing, assessments, and case conceptualization.
6. Evaluate suicide prevention models and strategies and crisis intervention techniques.
7. Recognize symptoms of trauma and practice clinical interventions for informed care.
8. Identify counselor characteristics and behaviors that influence the therapeutic relationship.
9. Apply research evidence and community standards of practice in selecting counseling skills.
10. Describe and apply  the information expected by community standards of practice that would be included in casenotes and treatment plans.