Involves the demonstration and supervised practice of interview skills. Emphasis is on development of core helping skills and attitudes foundational to an effective counseling process. Special attention is given to introductory issues in counseling relationship ethics and how gender, class, and cultural diversity factors may influence the counseling process. Differences in family structures and patterns will be addressed, with opportunities for students to apply theoretical principles to real-life family situations. Introduction to the use of groups in counseling and psychotherapy.
Emphasis is on theoretical, practical, and ethical issues of group processes.
Both didactic and experimental methods will be used. Introduction to the theory and practice of psychological assessment focusing on personality measures and instruments used in career counseling. Includes the theoretical, ethical, and practical issues of construction, administration, scoring, and interpretation of psychological tests and evaluation of assessment instruments. The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-R will also be learned as an instrument for assessing intelligence and for its interface as an assessment tool for psychopathology. Psychometric properties and proper use of these instruments, as well as factors affecting their reliability and validity will be covered.