Counseling Techniques for Educators

Get an overview of several counseling theories and techniques. Emphasis will be placed on becoming familiar with counseling approaches that can be used by counselors, teachers, administrators and others in the K-12 school setting. You will learn and practice the basic tenets of Carkhuff’s Human Resource Development (HRD) Model in order to gain competence in applying basic counseling skills. Multicultural and diversity issues, as well as a variety of child and adolescent issues, will also be discussed.