HMSV 1120 - Helping Skills and Techniques

4.5 Credits

This course introduces students to basic interpersonal skills such as appropriate self-disclosure, active listening, and constructive challenging. The course also prepares students to use professional helping skills on a one-to-basis. Helping skills that are discussed and practiced include at least four of the following: active listening, reflective feedback, summarizing, self-disclosing, displaying empathy, confronting, establishing rapport, and communicating at the client’s comprehension level. Students acquire and demonstrate skills through videotaped role-plays, in-class role-plays, counseling critiques, case studies, and other experiential exercises.

Lecture Hours: 4.5
Lab Hours: 0.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives

Define and demonstrate appropriate self-disclosure.
Demonstrate responding with understanding.
Display appropriate challenge skills.
Demonstrate minimal encouragers, paraphrasing, summarizing, reflection of feeling, skillful questioning, keeping the focus on the client.
Practice the skill of challenging (confrontation).
Demonstrate an ability to integrate the above skills.

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