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.

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 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