This course will provide students with the knowledge and skills fundamental to basic counselling. Students will be encouraged to begin to develop their own model of practice through discussion and critically analyzing the helping model of Gerard Egan and other models of helping. A primary focus is on students learning and practicing the basic communication skills, including: attending, listening, empathy, and probing. Content areas will include an emphasis on building counsellor self-awareness and the role of the counselling relationship in the effecting of therapeutic change.
