HUMS 122 Individual Counseling Techniques

This course will make available for use clinical methods that attend both to developing diagnostic understanding and to implementing treatment skills with mental health and/or chemically abusing/ dependent populations.

Credits

3

Hours Weekly

3

Course Objectives

1. Describe the emotional demands and rewards of counseling clients.
2. Discuss the boundaries necessary for a healthy and effective counseling relationship.
3. Demonstrate understanding of both the conceptual and practical meaning of the “core tools”;
   empathic understanding, respect, genuineness, self-disclosure, concreteness, confrontation.
4. Compare ethical and legal responsibilities as they apply to the helping relationship.
5. Analyze the personal and social costs of mental illness and addictive behavioral patterns.
6. Identify the major theories of psychology and addiction in understanding addictive and
   abusive behavior patterns.
7. Identify symptoms and behavior patterns associated with emotional and behavioral
   disturbances and chemical dependency.
8. Recognize defense mechanisms utilized by clients, and to effectively and constructively
   confront that client to help them recognize any destructive behavioral patterns.
9. Interview individuals in a constructive goal oriented manner.
10. Identify the basis of the formation, maintenance and termination of a counseling relationship
    with individual clients.

Course Objectives

1. Describe the emotional demands and rewards of counseling clients.
2. Discuss the boundaries necessary for a healthy and effective counseling relationship.
3. Demonstrate understanding of both the conceptual and practical meaning of the “core tools”;
   empathic understanding, respect, genuineness, self-disclosure, concreteness, confrontation.
4. Compare ethical and legal responsibilities as they apply to the helping relationship.
5. Analyze the personal and social costs of mental illness and addictive behavioral patterns.
6. Identify the major theories of psychology and addiction in understanding addictive and
   abusive behavior patterns.
7. Identify symptoms and behavior patterns associated with emotional and behavioral
   disturbances and chemical dependency.
8. Recognize defense mechanisms utilized by clients, and to effectively and constructively
   confront that client to help them recognize any destructive behavioral patterns.
9. Interview individuals in a constructive goal oriented manner.
10. Identify the basis of the formation, maintenance and termination of a counseling relationship
    with individual clients.