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Apr 24, 2024
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CFS 5602 - Professional Assessment and Helping Skills
This is the child and family studies capstone course in the assessment of children, individuals, couples and families, and the acquisition of helping skills needed to facilitate these processes; all necessary in preparing students for their final internship experience. It is designed to help students acquire practical helping skills, techniques, and theoretical foundations that define and support assessment and effective helping relationships for human services professionals working in a wide range of settings. Highly experiential in nature and includes multiple opportunities for practice, demonstration, and discussion of methods and techniques drawn from the text, lectures, and supplemental materials. It also includes an introduction to group process. Specific emphasis is placed on integrating previous and concurrent course content and experiences, and bringing an enhanced level of skill to the helping relationship. Additional considerations include an emphasis on a student’s personal beliefs, values, and spirituality and their impact on the helping process and developing an awareness of multicultural issues and other significant topics that impact the helping relationship, such as ethics, gender, race, religion, disability, ageism, and sexual orientation.
Requisites: CFS major
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Acquire a greater self-understanding of yourself as a helping professional through self-exploration and self-appraisal, and develop an awareness of the ways in which you impact others, particularly those whose life experiences, values, and beliefs.
- Acquire an advanced level of methods and techniques necessary to define client problems, select goals, facilitate change in attitudes and/or behaviors, and evaluate the effectiveness of the helping process.
- Define, describe, and demonstrate your understanding, knowledge, and skills relating to the critical elements of assessment and the helping relationship in human services settings.
- Demonstrate your understanding of the multicultural aspects of helping and its impact on the helping relationship, and identify, examine, and strengthen your abilities to work effectively with clients who may be disabled, severely traumatized, addict.
- Enhance and develop your interpersonal relationship and communication skills and experiment with different approaches to helping.
- Integrating previous and concurrent course content and experiences into a personal philosophy of helping.
- Participate in group processes and acquire the skill set needed to work effectively in groups, including giving and receiving productive feedback.
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