Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Introduction to the rationale for and the practice of basic counselling skills. Emphasis on the development of counselling skills as a means of establishing effective helping relationships in educational settings.

COURSE DETAILS:

The major focus of this course will be your active participation in the practise of basic listening and empathy skills. This will be accomplished through an experience/reflection format with opportunities to practise skills every class, and by videotaping your active listening exchanges and transcribing them. This will then be followed by self-critique and constructive feedback from the instructor and fellow students in your group.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

Learning Objectives

This course will focus on the development of basic listening, empathy and interviewing skills that help to foster human relations and understanding of others. There will be an emphasis on the role-play and personal use of a variety of basic counselling skills. These skills are not meant to reflect any one theory of counselling but are seen as fundamental to the development of helping relationships in any domain. Specifically, at the end of the course, students will have had the opportunity to:

a. Increase your awareness of your own natural resources for helping others.
b. Enable you to understand and demonstrate the appropriate use of a broad repertoire of specific helping skills.
c. Enable you to more fully understand the interrelationship between your personality, your personal experiences, and the processes and skills involved in becoming an effective helper.
d. Enable you to investigate more deeply the roots of other’s personal stories and dilemmas, and effectively intervene to help people make constructive changes in their lives.

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Materials

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