Subject: Genetic Counseling
Course Number: 219
Course Title: Foundational Counseling Skills
Units: 2
School: Graduate Division
Department: Genetic Counseling Program

Course Description: This course provides the foundational knowledge and skills necessary for effective client-centered counseling. Focus is placed upon establishing and maintaining a therapeutic relationship through practices that promote the counselor’s self-awareness, as well as the capacity to empathically attune and attend to clients’ needs. Common client-counselor relational dynamics and client coping strategies will be addressed. Students will learn psychosocial interventions promoting adaptation to illness.
Prerequisites: None
Restrictions: Genetic Counseling students only
Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture

Instructor of Record: S. Segal
May the student choose the instructor for this course? No
Does enrollment in this course require instructor approval? No

Quarter(s) Offered: Spring
Course Grading Convention: Letter Grade
Graduate Division course: Yes
Is this a web-based online course? No
Is this an Interprofessional Education (IPE) course? No
May students in the Graduate Division (i.e. pursuing Master or PhD) enroll in this course? Yes
Repeat course for credit? No