Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Spring 2024 - EDUC 423 E200

Helping Relationships (4)

Class Number: 6558

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 8 – Apr 12, 2024: Wed, 4:30–8:20 p.m.
    Surrey

  • Prerequisites:

    Or corequisite: EDUC 323.

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:

This course will provide training in basic, help-intended counselling skills with an emphasis on empathic listening and responding for the purposes of facilitating client self-awareness and self-exploration. Students will be introduced to theory and practice of the conditions for change in counselling, the multicultural context of counselling and associated counsellor competiences, as well as ethical issues pertinent to professional helping relationships, such as confidentiality, power differentials, counsellor bias, and dual relationships.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

  1. Increase students’ awareness of their own natural resources for building relationships with others.
  2. To understand and consistently demonstrate the appropriate use of a basic repertoire of specific communication skills used in helping professions.
  3. Understand and demonstrate professional and ethical behaviour in class, in practice sessions, and in feedback sessions with fellow students and the course instructor.

Grading

  • A1: Video-Recording & Transcription 15%
  • A2: Video-recording & Transcription 30%
  • A3: Video-recording & Transcription 40%
  • Class Participation 15%

NOTES:

No final exam

REQUIREMENTS:

APA style (8th edition) is required

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Shebib, B. (2020). Choices: Interviewing and counselling skills for Canadians. 8th Ed. Toronto: Pearson

RECOMMENDED READING:

American Psychological Association (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.


REQUIRED READING NOTES:

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

SFU’s Academic Integrity website http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html