BH 214 Advanced Interviewing and Counseling Skills
Lecture Hours: 3 Credits: 3
Introduces intentional interviewing. Focuses on developing advanced skills and strategies with significant opportunity for skill acquisition through practice. Second of a two-course sequence.
Prerequisite: Admitted into Behavioral Health program; and completion of WR 121Z with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor. Student Learning Outcomes:
Explain the principles of motivational interviewing and their role in effective counseling.
Identify stages-of-change models and related counseling interventions.
Design and conduct counseling sessions for the purpose of motivating client change.
Identify evidence-based best practices in the treatment of substance use disorders.
Discuss ways to view incremental change and the acceptance of relapse as an opportunity for positive growth.
Integrate interviewing/counseling skills with theoretical orientations.
Content Outline
Basic Counseling Skills
Organizing the interview
Attending, observational skills, reflective listening and feeling
Motivational Interviewing
Stages-of-change
Motivational interviewing skills
Building motivation for change
Strengthening commitment to change
Applying motivational interviewing across the treatment continuum