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Apr 26, 2024
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COU 530 - Counseling Techniques
This course is a Tier 1 course required for candidacy to the Counseling degree programs. This course is a didactic and experiential course intended to provide students with the knowledge, awareness, and skills necessary to gain an understanding of and begin to use counseling techniques that are essential in helping relationships. This course builds on the students’ knowledge of counseling theories learned in COU 505 , focusing on application of this knowledge and specific strategies and techniques. Beginning counseling skills of empathy, active listening, responding, questioning, confronting, and problem identification will be learned. Students will demonstrate their ability to apply these techniques through the use of role-plays, some of which will be videotaped. Through these experiences students are provided with opportunities for personal growth as well as the development of sound counseling techniques. In addition, students will be challenged to examine issues that will impact their effectiveness as counselors with a focus upon the importance of self-reflection and counselor self-awareness.
3 Credits.
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