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.
Hours Weekly
3 hours weekly
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.