Position Summary

This course helps students develop a balanced and integrated theoretical and practical approach to verbal counseling with a focus on skills development and students’ integration of their learning into clinical work. Students begin to develop their own verbal counselling style by learning and practicing active, accurate, and attentive listening. They learn to understand and utilize non-verbal communications, encouragers, rapport building, and therapeutic environment. Students learn a wide variety of verbal interventions such as reflecting, repeating, paraphrasing, clarifying, summarizing, perception checks, empathetic statements, and focusing. They also learn therapeutic questions such as lineal, circular, strategic, and reflexive questions, solution-focused brief therapy interventions, and person-centred therapy techniques. A special focus will be on a trauma story assessment, narrative exposure therapy techniques, Yalom’s group interventio...