HSRH 3000 - Introduction to Professional Counseling

Credit Hours: 3

This course provides an introduction to professional counseling. It provides a broad overview of its historical and theoretical foundations, and includes introductory information about professional counseling organizations, standards, and ethics; the basic core body of knowledge; professional credentialing; and essential interviewing and counseling skills. The course begins the process of the development of professional identity. It stresses self-growth and awareness as well as observational skills as related to becoming an agent of individual, group, family, and systems change. Must be Junior status or above.