Instructor’s Resource Manual and Test
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Counseling Strategies and Interventions for Professional Helpers, 9th
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by Sherry Cormier
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, Table of content
Chapter 1 The Helping Professions
Chapter 2 The Helping Relationship
Chapter 3 Communication Patterns in the Helping Process
Chapter 4 Attending Skills
Chapter 5 Listening Skills
Chapter 6 Action Skills
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Chapter 7 Managing the Helping Session
Chapter 8 Conceptualizing Client Issues and Setting Change Goals
Chapter 9 Using Integrative Helping Strategies and Interventions
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Chapter 10 Considerations and Challenges for Beginning Helpers
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, Course Syllabus
Counseling Strategies and Interventions
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The focus of this course is on the development of helping strategies and interventions applicable to a variety of
settings. Evaluation will be based on evidence of intrapersonal and interpersonal helping skills as demonstrated in
role-play and/or written assignments. Didactic material aimed at fostering competency in the area of professional
ethics and multicultural sensitivity also will be included.
COURSE TEXTS
ST
Cormier, S. (2016). Counseling Strategies and Interventions for Professional Helpers (9th ed.).
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Knowledge Development
To acquire knowledge regarding the process of helping, particularly generic helping strategies and interventions
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that are applicable to all major models of helping. Provide an overview of the helping process and the
accompanying professional and ethical issues.
2. Skill Development
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To acquire helping skills with particular emphasis on interpersonal skills used in assisting clients in exploring
and understanding their problems. These include relationship dynamics, nonverbal and verbal responses,
opening and terminating interviews, active listening skills, responding to cognitive and affective content,
identifying problems and setting goals, and receiving and utilizing supervision.
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3. Self Development
To identify, discuss, and further develop personal values and issues as they relate to helping and other human
interactions, and to promote individual personal growth.
GRADING
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A point system is used. Points are assigned as follows:
Listening Response Audiotape or Videotape 20
Integrative Interview Video 25
Integrative Interview Transcript 15
Research /Literature Summary for Integrative Interview 15
Final Exam 25
TOTAL 100
A 90-100%
B 80-89%
C 70-79%
D 60-69%
F Below 60%
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, COURSE OUTLINE
Week Assignment
1 Course Review – Overview of a Helping Model
and the Helper/Client Relationship
2 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapters 1-2
The Helping Professions, The Helping Relationship
3 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 3
Communication Patterns in the Helping Process
4 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 4
Attending Skills
5 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 5
Listening Skills
6 Listening Response Audiotape or Videotape Due
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Listening to and/or Viewing Tapes
7 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 6
Action Skills
Mid Semester
8 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 7
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Managing the Helping Session
9 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 8
Conceptualizing Client Issues and Setting Change Goals
10 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 9
Using Integrative Helping Strategies and Interventions
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11 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 10
Considerations and Challenges for Beginning Helpers
12 Integrative Interview Video and Transcript Due
13 Viewing Integrative Role Play Videotapes
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Research /Literature Summary for Integrative Interview Due
14 Continuation of Videotape Viewing
15 Course Evaluation
Final Exam
LISTENING RESPONSE AUDIOTAPE OR VIDEOTAPE
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Based on the content in Chapters 2 and 4 of the text, engage in a 10-15 minute interview with a role play client in
which you demonstrate listening skills. Refer to items 1 through 18 in Part I: Helper Attending Behavior
(Nonverbal) and Helper Attending Behavior (Verbal) of the Helping Strategies Checklist in the text appendices as a
guide.
INTEGRATIVE INTERVIEW VIDEO
Toward the end of the semester you will engage in a 15-20 minute interview with a role play client that is
videotaped. Your task in this interview is to integrate the skills we have learned during the class and covered in the
text. Parts I through VII of the Helping Strategies Checklist in the text appendices are designed to enhance the
process of conducting an integrative interview.
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Bank
Counseling Strategies and Interventions for Professional Helpers, 9th
edition
by Sherry Cormier
ST
U
D
YL
AB
, Table of content
Chapter 1 The Helping Professions
Chapter 2 The Helping Relationship
Chapter 3 Communication Patterns in the Helping Process
Chapter 4 Attending Skills
Chapter 5 Listening Skills
Chapter 6 Action Skills
ST
Chapter 7 Managing the Helping Session
Chapter 8 Conceptualizing Client Issues and Setting Change Goals
Chapter 9 Using Integrative Helping Strategies and Interventions
U
Chapter 10 Considerations and Challenges for Beginning Helpers
D
YL
AB
, Course Syllabus
Counseling Strategies and Interventions
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The focus of this course is on the development of helping strategies and interventions applicable to a variety of
settings. Evaluation will be based on evidence of intrapersonal and interpersonal helping skills as demonstrated in
role-play and/or written assignments. Didactic material aimed at fostering competency in the area of professional
ethics and multicultural sensitivity also will be included.
COURSE TEXTS
ST
Cormier, S. (2016). Counseling Strategies and Interventions for Professional Helpers (9th ed.).
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Knowledge Development
To acquire knowledge regarding the process of helping, particularly generic helping strategies and interventions
U
that are applicable to all major models of helping. Provide an overview of the helping process and the
accompanying professional and ethical issues.
2. Skill Development
D
To acquire helping skills with particular emphasis on interpersonal skills used in assisting clients in exploring
and understanding their problems. These include relationship dynamics, nonverbal and verbal responses,
opening and terminating interviews, active listening skills, responding to cognitive and affective content,
identifying problems and setting goals, and receiving and utilizing supervision.
YL
3. Self Development
To identify, discuss, and further develop personal values and issues as they relate to helping and other human
interactions, and to promote individual personal growth.
GRADING
AB
A point system is used. Points are assigned as follows:
Listening Response Audiotape or Videotape 20
Integrative Interview Video 25
Integrative Interview Transcript 15
Research /Literature Summary for Integrative Interview 15
Final Exam 25
TOTAL 100
A 90-100%
B 80-89%
C 70-79%
D 60-69%
F Below 60%
1
, COURSE OUTLINE
Week Assignment
1 Course Review – Overview of a Helping Model
and the Helper/Client Relationship
2 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapters 1-2
The Helping Professions, The Helping Relationship
3 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 3
Communication Patterns in the Helping Process
4 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 4
Attending Skills
5 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 5
Listening Skills
6 Listening Response Audiotape or Videotape Due
ST
Listening to and/or Viewing Tapes
7 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 6
Action Skills
Mid Semester
8 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 7
U
Managing the Helping Session
9 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 8
Conceptualizing Client Issues and Setting Change Goals
10 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 9
Using Integrative Helping Strategies and Interventions
D
11 Read – Cormier and Hackney Chapter 10
Considerations and Challenges for Beginning Helpers
12 Integrative Interview Video and Transcript Due
13 Viewing Integrative Role Play Videotapes
YL
Research /Literature Summary for Integrative Interview Due
14 Continuation of Videotape Viewing
15 Course Evaluation
Final Exam
LISTENING RESPONSE AUDIOTAPE OR VIDEOTAPE
AB
Based on the content in Chapters 2 and 4 of the text, engage in a 10-15 minute interview with a role play client in
which you demonstrate listening skills. Refer to items 1 through 18 in Part I: Helper Attending Behavior
(Nonverbal) and Helper Attending Behavior (Verbal) of the Helping Strategies Checklist in the text appendices as a
guide.
INTEGRATIVE INTERVIEW VIDEO
Toward the end of the semester you will engage in a 15-20 minute interview with a role play client that is
videotaped. Your task in this interview is to integrate the skills we have learned during the class and covered in the
text. Parts I through VII of the Helping Strategies Checklist in the text appendices are designed to enhance the
process of conducting an integrative interview.
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