PS5109 Fundamentals of Counseling
This course provides an introduction to the fundamental interviewing and counseling skills in light of the principles of naturopathic medicine. The course covers multiple specific skills applicable across theoretical orientations, including use of questions, encouraging, paraphrasing, summarizing, confrontation, reflection of feeling, focusing, directives, and others. Special attention is given to risk assessment in clinical practice. The course is supplemented with a weekly practicum lab in which students develop basic counseling skills. Lecture is taught in a hybrid-online format.
Prerequisite
PS5121