Subject: Genetic Counseling
Course Number: 222
Course Title: Advanced Counseling Skills
Units: 2
School: Graduate Division
Department: Genetic Counseling Program

Course Description: Students will deepen their clinical practice studying more complex topics for health care providers: communicating bad news, working with difficult emotions, navigating grief and loss, addressing death and dying, exploring hope and spirituality, and facilitating healing. A mindfulness-based framework for promoting self-reflection is woven throughout the course. Classwork emphasizes experiential learning designed to help students gain competency in challenging clinical encounters.
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: Winter
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