L.MHC 647 - Helping Relationships

1. An orientation to wellness and prevention as desired counseling goals;
2. Counselor characteristics and behaviors that influence helping processes;
3. An understanding of essential interviewing and counseling skills;
4. Counseling theories that provide the student with a model(s) to conceptualize client presentation and select appropriate counseling interventions. Students shall be exposed to models of counseling that are consistent with current professional research and practice in the field so that they can begin to develop a personal model of counseling;
5. A systems perspective that provides an understanding of family and other systems theories and major models of family and related interventions;
6. A general framework for understanding and practicing consultation; and
7. Crisis intervention and suicide prevention models, including the use of psychological first-aid strategies.