Lecture: 2 hours/week
and
Lab: 2 hours/week
Lecture
Role playing
Small group discussion.
Course content will be guided by research, empirical knowledge and best practices. The following values and principles, consistent with professional standards, inform course content.
- Effective practice acknowledges the influence of environmental factors, integrates principles of social justice, and recognizes the interconnectedness between individual well-being and broader systemic and ecological issues.
- Effective social workers are informed by evidence-based research and approaches.
- Proficient social workers have the capacity to be versatile and draw on an eclectic variety of counselling approaches.
- Understanding individual and cultural differences is an essential element of professional practice.
- Professional development requires an ongoing commitment to developing self-awareness, making oneself available for feedback, and monitoring and evaluating one’s competence, as well as utilizing supervision, professional literature, and training opportunities.
- Communication and counselling skills are practiced in the context of the Social Work Code of Ethics.
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Use foundational counselling skills to effectively support clients in diverse practice settings.
- Apply evidence-based social work counselling practices.
- Explain critiques of western counselling models and their impact on marginalized populations.
- Demonstrate relationships rooted in empathy, cultural humility, and reciprocity.
- Use alternative ways of healing into counselling practice, promoting culturally responsive care.
- Demonstrate reflexive practice skills to assess and integrate multiple approaches in work with diverse individuals, families, and communities.
- Describe de-escalation strategies.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the goals of crisis intervention and the skills to intervene in suicide risk situations.
- Demonstrate motivational interviewing skills, cognitive behavioural counselling skills, brief counselling, effective mediation skills, and knowledge of strategies for engagement.
This course will conform to Douglas College Evaluation Policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations. Other means of evaluation may include a combination of:
- Papers
- Case study analysis
- Role-play demonstrations
- Exams
Evaluations will be carried out in accordance with Douglas College Evaluation Policy and will include both formative and summative components. Instructors may use a student’s record of attendance and/or level of active participation in a course as part of the student’s graded performance. Where this occurs, expectations and grade calculations regarding class attendance and participation will be clearly defined in the Instructor Course Outline.
Texts such as the following, the list to be updated periodically:
A Practical Guide For Counsellors: Co-Creating Safe and Culturally Responsive Relational Spaces by G.Ko, M.Anderson, S.Collins, and Y.
Yasynskyy (Eds.), 2023. Copyright 2023 by Counselling Concepts. CCBY-NC-SA4.0.
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