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ARCHIVED 2017-18 Graduate Studies Catalog 
    
ARCHIVED 2017-18 Graduate Studies Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

COU 601 - Counseling Skills and Techniques (3)


This course provides an orientation to counseling as a helping profession and addresses the importance of establishing and maintaining a therapeutic relationship.  Focus is placed on developing the essential listening and interviewing skills necessary for effective counseling.  The course emphasizes counselor self-awareness and counselor development, and includes the use of recorded counseling interviews and role plays. Students are exposed to culturally responsive helper skills. 
Required core course.