HUMS 122 Individual Counseling Techniques

This course will make available for use foundational helping and clinical methods that attend both to developing diagnostic understanding and to implementing helping/ treatment skills with a variety of populations.

Credits

3

Hours Weekly

3

Course Objectives

1. Describe the emotional demands and rewards of counseling clients and discuss the role of boundaries in supporting an effective counseling relationship.
2. Demonstrate understanding of both the conceptual and practical meaning of the “core tools”;
   empathic understanding, respect, genuineness, self-disclosure, concreteness, confrontation.
3. Examine ethical and legal responsibilities as they apply to the helping relationship.
4. Identify the major theories of psychology in understanding emotional, behavioral and substance use concerns.
5. Recognize symptoms and behavior patterns associated with emotional, behavioral and substance use concerns.
6. Recognize common client behaviors that interfere with progress in addressing emotional, behavioral, substance use concerns and identify ways to address them effectively.
7. Interview individuals in a constructive goal oriented manner.
8. Identify the basis of the formation, maintenance and termination of a counseling relationship
   with individual clients.
9. To examine the role of technology in the helping relationship through the selection and effective use of appropriate technological tools, and through communication and collaboration using technology-mediated platforms.

Course Objectives

1. Describe the emotional demands and rewards of counseling clients and discuss the role of boundaries in supporting an effective counseling relationship.
2. Demonstrate understanding of both the conceptual and practical meaning of the “core tools”;
   empathic understanding, respect, genuineness, self-disclosure, concreteness, confrontation.
3. Examine ethical and legal responsibilities as they apply to the helping relationship.
4. Identify the major theories of psychology in understanding emotional, behavioral and substance use concerns.
5. Recognize symptoms and behavior patterns associated with emotional, behavioral and substance use concerns.
6. Recognize common client behaviors that interfere with progress in addressing emotional, behavioral, substance use concerns and identify ways to address them effectively.
7. Interview individuals in a constructive goal oriented manner.
8. Identify the basis of the formation, maintenance and termination of a counseling relationship
   with individual clients.
9. To examine the role of technology in the helping relationship through the selection and effective use of appropriate technological tools, and through communication and collaboration using technology-mediated platforms.

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Technological Literacy Rubric