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Feb 10, 2025
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HS 211 Wellness Counseling Lecture Hours: 4 Credits: 4
Explores the relationship between alcohol and other drug abuse and infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, sexually-transmitted diseases(STIs), and hepatitis. Explores different health issues such as diabetes, asthma, obesity, and medication adherence. Examines personal issues/discomforts arising from frankly discussing sexual/health behaviors of clients. Provides counseling techniques for assisting clients to identify personal risk and practice harm reduction of STIs and other health issues.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Discuss the relationship between alcohol and other drugs and infectious diseases.
- Discuss current trends in the spread and treatment of sexually transmitted and other infectious diseases for all people.
- Conduct a risk assessment and harm reduction interview.
- Identify barriers to testing and treatment for special populations in human services settings and describe strategies to overcome those barriers.
- Assess and propose management of personal discomforts from discussing the sexual/health behaviors of clients while applying behavioral health change principles and procedures to real life health situations and interpreting the results.
- Describe social and behavioral theories that guide health-related behavior and health promotion and prevention efforts.
- Illustrate methods of health counseling as they are used to integrate with behavior change in groups and with individual clients.
Content Outline
- AIDS 101
- Bio-medical aspects of virus and routes of transmission
- Psycho-social impact of HIV/AIDS disease and treatment
- Special populations
- Testing issues
- AOD treatment implications
- Counselor Discomfort Issues
- Sex - where did you learn about it and what did you learn
- Values clarification and awareness
- Sexual practices that put clients at risk
- Hepatitis 101
- Transmission, progression, and treatment of disease
- Psycho-social impact of diagnosis
- Risk Assessment Interview Using Risk Assessment Tool
- Client profile
- Assessment interview
- Client feedback
- Counselor challenges
- Prochaska’s Model of Behavioral Change
- Risk Reduction Interview
- Language of hope
- Risk reduction interview
- Client feedback
- Process in large group
- Confidentiality and Legal Issues for Counselor in Treatment Setting
- Resources
- Videos
- Education
- Treatment
- Support
- Internet Resources
- Best Practices of Behavioral Change Principles
- Levels of readiness
- Alignment of intervention with readiness level
- Personalized health behavior change plan
- Self-management as the organizing framework for behavior change
- Effective use of incentives to motivate supporting behavior
- Role of social support
- Power of peer support
- Culturally responsiveness
- Applying Behavioral Change Principles to Real Life Principles
- Clinical situations
- Groups
- In-home visitation areas
- Assessing and Evaluation Health Behavior
- Chronic disease
- Medication adherence
- Physical activity
- Social and Behavioral Theories of Health Behavior
- Transtheoretical model and self-efficacy
- Health belief model
- Protection motivation theory
- Theory of planned behavior
- Methods of Health Counseling
- Motivational interviewing
- Acceptance commitment therapy
- Cognitive behavioral and rational emotive therapy
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