| Course description: | Designed to cover the basic attending and relationship building skills needed to develop and establish a therapeutic counseling relationship. Students will learn how to establish clear counseling goals and objectives, design intervention strategies, evaluate client outcome, and terminate the counseling relationship. Students will also learn a basic model for direct intervention. Virtual Lab Requirement: As part of this course, students are required to participate in a 3-day virtual lab focused on practicing counseling technique skills with instructors. Lab dates will be announced at the beginning of the course. Full attendance is mandatory. Failure to attend the lab in its entirety will result in a failing grade for the course.. Prerequisites: COUN 501, 516, 533, 544 (F) |