COUN 502 - The Helping Relationship

4 credits
Designed for first-term mental health counseling students. Focuses on the foundational ingredients of the effective helping relationship, including development of a clear professional identity; ethical practice; multicultural sensitivity; and the conceptual, interpersonal, and therapeutic skills that foster movement toward clients’ goals and potentialities. Students gain competence in interviewing and counseling microskills. The pre-practicum portion involves practice interviews utilizing videotape critique in weekly dyads/triads and group supervision. Students learn how to utilize supervision to facilitate developments of microskills and expand competence as an “intentional” counselor.Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the MHC program.Corequisite(s): COUN 571.