L.MHC 647 - Helping Relationships

Credits: 3

This course provides an understanding of counseling processes in a multicultural society, with emphasis on essential interviewing and counseling skills and the counselor characteristics and behaviors that influence the helping processes. There will be an orientation to wellness and prevention as desired counseling goals. Counseling theories will be introduced 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. A systems perspective that provides an understanding of family and other systems theories and major models of family and related interventions will be covered. This course will also provide a general framework for understanding and practicing consultation and crisis intervention and suicide prevention models, including the use of psychological first-aid strategies. Finally, students will be taught the impact that technology can have on the counseling process.

Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None