COUN 6520 - Applied Clinical Skills II

This course highlights the applied aspects of clinical counseling skills and merges the continued development of basic skills with advanced coursework, evidence-based practices, and case conceptualization skills. Students will examine intrapersonal alignments with their developing theoretical orientations. Students will demonstrate theoretically consistent case conceptualization skills, throughout assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, referral, evaluation and termination. Students will examine how counselor characteristics, beliefs, biases, and attitudes influence the overall therapeutic process and explore effective strategies for minimizing the impact of these issues. In-class time will be for practicing counseling techniques and styles through class activities, demonstrations, and role-plays. This course requires students to conduct, video-record, and document ongoing counseling sessions with a simulated client. Students are expected to effectively conduct 50-minute goal-directed counseling sessions by the end of the course. Prerequisites: COUN 5140 , COUN 5210 , COUN 5510 , COUN 5520 , COUN 5910 , COUN 5920 , COUN 6120 , COUN 6190 , and COUN 6200 . 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