This course explores the counselor-client relationship as well as the theories behind and techniques employed in individual, family and group counseling. It also includes role playing segments.
• Counseling is a relationship in which the counselor helps the client mobilize resources to resolve his or her problems and/or to modify attitudes and values
• Exploration of problems, its ramification and examination of attitudes and feeling consideration of alternative solutions; decision making, and therapeutic approaches (e.g., Reality therapy, RET; Brief Therapy; Motivational Interviewing, etc.)
• Vocabulary associated with each Theory and related to this module
• Cognitive Distortions
• Provisions of services to special populations, co-occurring disorders, people with disabilities, cultural differences, system involved, etc.
• Family counseling: (all family counseling must be relative to substance- abuse issues.) Theories of family codependency; techniques for motivating family involvement in the treatment process; techniques of multi-family group counseling; working with family therapists, selecting therapists for family work; counselor identification of limitations relating to family issues
• Group counseling: purpose and function of different types of counseling groups: models of group; group techniques: stages of group; group intervention, group patterns, therapeutic factors in groups; expression, commitment, process groups, didactic training; role of the counselor, group orientation
• This course includes practical applications in role-play settings during video sessions and will be completed both Individually with instructor and classmates, independently and in assigned live video breakout groups
• Personal Journal Outline TAP 21