Chapter 6-Teaching Introduction to Counseling Flashcards
What are the objectives of the Intro to Counseling course?
Orients students to the awareness, knowledge, and skills needed for professional counseling in school, agency, and college settings.
What are faculty objectives in the Intro to Counseling course?
- serve as models for counselors-in-training (CITs)
- Identifyboth what to know and how to know
- Promote diverse perspectives by presenting multiple paradigms
- changes in society and the workplace
- delivery of counseling services
In the Intro. Course, what do students build their understandings of?
- ethical guidelines
- program standards
- licensing requirements
- multicultural and advocacy competencies.
What are Four experiential learning and constructivist elements that guide the Intro. Course design?
- Encouraging learner engagement
- Emphasizing personalization and ownership
- Valuing intrapersonal process
- Promoting interpersonal learning
What is a primary assumption underlying the introductory course?
The training experience will change the trainee.
What are three ways during this course that students are challenged?
A. to enhance their cognitive development by examining their willingness to question assumptions (awareness)
b. to become informed about parameters of professional counseling (knowledge)
c. to use empathy, group skills, and other counseling competencies (skill).
RE: culture, what is another goal of the Intro. Course?
For students to become more culturally de-centered
RE: the Intro Course, what are five dimensions of a participatory, co-constructive learning environment?
- classroom structure
- Ground rules
- feedback norms
- guided practice
- individual reflection assignments
What are 3 stages of the Introduction to Counseling course?
- the context of professional helping
- development of a professional knowledge base
- integration of awareness and knowledge.
What do objectives for the first stage, introductory stage, emphasize?
- Professional counseling roles and ethics (ACA code of ethics)
- Core values of social justice and cultural competency.
- Identity development models
What is introduced in Stage 2 of the Intro Course?
- professional history
- counseling theories
- basic counseling process and helping relationships
- professional organizations
- technology applications
- counseling settings and specializations.
Describe Stage 3, integration of awareness and knowledge.
Students demonstrate mastery of the course learning objectives
What are advantages of circular seating?
(a) more effectively engages group dynamics
(b) reinforces a norm of participation
(c) supports risk taking
(d) increases expression of multiple perspectives
How should ground rules be developed for the Intro. Course?
- Co-constructed with students during the initial meeting
2. Students work first in dyads, then small groups, then large group
What ground rules should the instructor ensure are considered?
- active involvement
- respect
- confidentiality
- freedom from judgment
- sharing personally