ED 554 - Counseling Skills and Techniques Lab

3 Credit(s)

This course is designed to introduce the requisite knowledge base and counseling skills necessary to establish an effective counseling/coaching relationship with students/clients characterized by warmth, engagement, respect, genuineness, and empathy. Didactic presentation, reflection, and experiential learning best describe the instructional strategies. Students will have opportunities to apply counseling techniques in a supportive setting to promote their development and acquisition of counseling skills vital to counseling practice before entering practicum in clinical and/or K-12 school settings. This course will include small group and full class discussions to facilitate critical thinking about the content presented, as well as experiential, role-play demonstrations of core counseling techniques in a laboratory setting.