PSY 8500 - Counseling Techniques and Case Analysis: Individuals and Families

6 cr.

This course investigates the variety of counselor skills necessary in a helping relationship to move a client from an initial interview through the processes of information gathering, assessing, goal setting, and intervention (both individually and family system oriented) to establishing an effective termination. Students practice basic and active listening skills, such as paraphrasing, clarification, probing, and confrontation. They analyze and interpret client information and problem solve. Students also learn to develop an ecosystemic map of the client system, which includes a family or origin genogram and map of the relevant contextual levels impinging on the client system. Further, the course addresses such topics as crisis intervention, individual and group intervention strategies, couple and family assessment and interventions and case conference techniques.

A field based experience (25 hr. minimum) is required for this course. Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite for all students: admission to the MS in Counseling Program Prerequisite for school guidance students: PSY 7000 , PSY 7010 , PSY 7020 , PSY 8010 , PSY 8200 , PSY 8210 or PSY 8220 , PSY 8300 and candidacy. Prerequisite for mental health counseling students: PSY 7005 , PSY 7010 , PSY 7020 , PSY 8030 or PSY 8010 , PSY 8130 , and PSY 8132 . PSY 8300 and candidacy.