More than Listening: Counseling Skills

This course, More than Listening: Counseling Skills, will provide the learner with key background and skills practice in order to better attend to the psychological needs of those under their care through brief psychotherapeutic methods, psychological first aid, family systems theory and grief counseling.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course the learner will be able to:

• • Describe the difference between chaplaincy/pastoral counseling and secular counseling.

• • Describe the process of short-term counseling appropriate in the health care setting and methods of application.

• • Define appropriate supportive responses to traumatic events so that persons can manage the situation and respond appropriately.

• • Demonstrate understanding of family systems theory.

• • Demonstrate understanding of grief and bereavement theories and their application, including anticipatory, acute, and traumatic grief.

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