COUN 578 - Pre-practicum in Counseling Credits: 3

Designed to provide an understanding of, and applied practice in using, the fundamental skills of the helping process. Student-centered methods encourage collaboration, active listening, and peer-to-peer learning exchanges. Emphasizes the development of effective relationship building skills as well as the practice of approaches that facilitate client growth and change. Increased counselor self-understanding and self-analysis are a critical component of the course as well as students beginning to develop a personal style of counseling. Counselor and client characteristics, relationship variables, and external factors (e.g., societal and environmental) that influence the helping process will be addressed.

Prerequisite(s): COUN 559