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(MS) Master-Serv Learning Course
(SP) College of Psychology
3 credits
This course is an extension of Counseling Practicum. The student will be expected to develop more advanced skills in interviewing, assessment, and intervention. Simultaneously, continued emphasis will be placed upon ethical, legal, and professional issues, as well as development of a personal theory of clinical mental health counseling. Prerequisites: PYCL 0680 with a grade of B- or better; PYCL 0632.
1) Use the principles and practices of diagnosis, treatment, referral, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders to initiate, maintain, and terminate individual and group counseling techniques and interventions related to a broad range of mental health issues. 2) Conduct an intake interview, mental status evaluation, biopsychosocial history, mental health history, and psychological assessment for treatment planning and caseload management. 3) Expand clinical skills through direct client contact and formal, structured supervision including various individual and group supervision models, practices, and processes. 4) Demonstrate counseling competence regarding ethical and legal issues, the therapeutic alliance, transference/counter transference, therapist self-disclosure, diagnosis and case conceptualization, intervention strategies, documentation, termination issues, and self-care. 5) Demonstrate sensitivity to issues of cultural, racial, and ethnic diversity and its impact on counseling and strategies to advocate for clients and mental health counseling. 6) Demonstrate the ability to use suicide prevention models and strategies, and procedures for assessing and managing suicide risk, as well as risk of aggression or danger to others. 7) Recognize dynamics associated with group process and development. 8) Develop a general framework for understanding and practicing consultation skills, as well as responses to crises, emergencies, and disasters, including counselors’ roles and responsibilities as members of interdisciplinary community outreach and emergency management response teams and psychological first aid strategies. 9) Begin to develop a personal theory of counseling from which to conceptualize, assess, diagnose, and treat a diverse variety of clients. 10) Gain an understanding of the multiple professional roles and functions of counselors across specialty areas and their relationships with other human service providers, including interagency and inter-organizational collaboration, resource awareness, communication, and consultation.