COUN 5520 - Applied Clinical Skills I

The course focuses on the acquisition and practice of foundational counseling skills. It offers a comprehensive introduction to the essential skills required for effective counseling practice. Emphasizing experiential learning and self-reflection, students will develop core counseling competencies, such as active listening, empathy, rapport-building, and the use of open-ended questions. The importance and use of clinical supervision will be introduced including the roles and functions of both the supervisor and supervisee. Students will be presented with the use of technology in the counseling process and developing ethical and culturally relevant telehealth counseling skills. Through interactive role-plays, simulated counseling sessions, and reflective exercises, students will begin to cultivate a personal counseling style that is client-centered and grounded in ethical principles. This course has both synchronous components with faculty and student interaction via Zoom every week and asynchronous components with faculty and student interaction through Blackboard multiple times each week. Credits: 3