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COLLEGE-WIDE COURSE CONTENT SUMMARY
HMS 121 - BASIC
COUNSELING SKILLS I (3 CR.)
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Develops skills needed
to function in a helping relationship. Emphasizes skills in attending,
listening, and responding. Clarifies personal skill strengths, deficits,
and goals for skill improvement. Lecture 3 hrs. per week.
GENERAL COURSE PURPOSE
A. To provide a theoretical
framework for students to clarify the ingredients of an effective counseling
relationship.
B. To provide a practical
framework for students to learn counseling and interpersonal skills.
C.
To involve students in self-exploration of personal issues relevant to
substance abuse, mental health and gerontology in personal and professional
situations.
ENTRY LEVEL COMPETENCIES
English, reading and
writing.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
A. Identify
many of the variables necessary for constructive helping relationships.
B.
Demonstrate minimally facilitative levels of attending, observing, listening
and responding skills.
C. Set personal learning
goals and begin to measure their progress.
D. Identify many
of their strengths and weaknesses in the field of counseling and human
relations.
March 1988
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