HMSV 1120 - Helping Skills and Techniques

4.5 Credits

In this course, students practice basic interpersonal skills such as appropriate self-disclosure, active listening, and constructive challenging. Students apply professional helping skills on a one-to-one basis. Students demonstrate at least four of the following skills and techniques: active listening, reflective feedback, summarizing, self-disclosing, displaying empathy, confronting, establishing rapport, and communicating at the client’s comprehension level. Students exhibit 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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