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  Aug 24, 2025
 
2025-2026 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
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FO 736 - Counseling Techniques for Helping Relationships


This course provides a comprehensive knowledge base of essential counseling and interviewing processes in a multicultural society, including the development of basic listening and attending skills. Students will learn the philosophic bases of helping relationships, in addition to counseling techniques and strategies used to facilitate client change. Students will develop skills in establishing and maintaining therapeutic relationships with clients, and understand the development of evidence-based and collaborative treatment goals/plans. Students will be exposed to methods and models of consultation. Skills related to self-awareness and self-reflection are utilized to build an understanding of counselor characteristics and behaviors that facilitate effective therapeutic relationships. (3 credit hours)




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