Nov 07, 2024  
2023-2024 Graduate Bulletin 
    
2023-2024 Graduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CED 5225 - The Helping Relationship (3)


When Offered: Spring
This course examines the philosophy of the therapeutic relationship, basic counseling skills, and the developmental process of the counseling relationship. Through experiential activity, students in this course will develop the effective counseling skills necessary to sustain the counseling relationship from the initial interview to the termination. The focus of this course is on developing students’ presence, awareness, and use of effective counseling skills and basic active listening skills. Students will learn, observe, evaluate, and demonstrate effective counseling behaviors through the use of counseling skills practice (with other students), presentation of video/audio-recorded sessions, and the evaluation of practice sessions/skills of classmates under the supervision of the instructor.