Emphasis is on conditions for an effective helping relationship, attending and interviewing skills, basic theoretical assumptions, social and cultural contexts, ethical principles , and professional orientation. Emphasis is on philosophical understanding of the self , others and the profession. Emphasis is on developing a broad view of carer as life-style and on practical application of theory and information in a professional counseling context. An overview of the issues faced by the curent generation of midlife women. General themes of midlife, drawn from the literature onl adult development, are considered as a theoretical backdrop to recent research on midlife women.
Emphasis is on themes shown by recent reseasrch to be most significant to midlife women today.
Students are encouraged to explore how the material applies to their personal or professiona lives. I also served on the Thurston High School Shooting, although this incident was an anomalous response as far as the Red Cross Mission is concerned . Disaster Mental Health is taught on a regular schedule throughout the United States. Additional classes are sometimes offered to mobilize mental health responders at times of high impact disasters. I have taught this course in Portland, Oregon and in Honolulu, Hawaii.