COURSE INFORMATION
This CE course is specially designed for the healthcare or behavioral healthcare professional who is non-clinical and non-licensed. Many pastoral and non-clinical professionals work in the behavioral health field but they may lack formal education in basic counseling science. This course provides the basic knowledge to help non-clinical counselors enhance their knowledge and expertise in employing basic attending, listening and communicating skills in counseling. It also gives new counselors a sense of comfort knowing what to expect in counseling and how to better cultivate healthy therapeutic counseling relationships.
This course will address counselor ethics, attending skills, responding skills, and communication with clients. In addition, it will help counselors help understand the nature of counseling and how to productively help individuals discover true change in their lives through a variety of counseling skills and techniques. Finally, it will emphasize the importance of empathy and cross- cultural understanding in helping each client.
This course is required for those who are not clinical counselors, social workers, marriage family therapists, or healthcare providers who are not licensed, or have at least not taken a college level basic counseling course. It can also be taken as recertification course for anyone looking to review counseling skills and techniques
Hours of CE = 40. Course Code BH 100.
Course Tuition: $ 60.00
Instructor/Course Author: Mark Moran, M.A., SC-C, GC-C
Resume: access here
TEXTBOOK: There is one (1) required textbook for this course.
International Interviewing and Counseling: Facilitating Client Development in a Multicultural Society” 9th Ed. By Allen E. Ivey, Mary Bradford Ivey, Carlos P. Zalaquett. Published by Cengage (2018).
- ISBN: 978-1-305-86578-5
10th edition is also permitted for use in this course
Link to Purchase on Amazon.com: click here
TIME FRAME: You are allotted two years from the date of enrollment, to complete all of the four (4) courses in the Grief Counseling continuing education program. There are no set time-frames, other than the two year allotted time. If you do not complete the courses within the two-year time-frame, you will be removed from the course and an “incomplete” will be recorded for you in our records. Also, if you would like to complete the courses after this two-year expiration time, you would need to register and pay the course tuition fee again.
GRADING: You must achieve a passing score of at least 70% to complete this course and receive the 40 hours of awarded continuing education credit. There are no letter grades assigned. You will receive notice of your total % score. Those who score below the minimum of 70% will be contacted by the American Academy of Grief Counseling and options for completing additional course work to achieve a passing score, will be presented.
BOARD APPROVALS:
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is an Approved Provider for Continuing Education by the South Carolina Professional Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists licensing board, Provider # 4637.
AIHCP is an approved provider of continuing education by the American Institute of Health Care Professionals (The Provider) is approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Provider number # CEP 15595 for 40 Contact Hours. Access information
This course, which is approved by the Florida State Board Of Nursing (CE Provider # 50-11975) also has the following Board of Nursing Approvals, for 40 contact hours of CE
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Arkansas Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Georgia Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the South Carolina Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Professional Registered Nurses. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the New Mexico Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
Course Refund & AIHCP Policies: access here
ONLINE CLASSROOM RESOURCES AND TOOLS
* Examination Access: there is link to take you right to the online examination program where you can print out your examination and work with it. All examinations are formatted as “open book” tests. When you are ready, you can access the exam program at anytime and click in your responses to the questions. Full information is provided in the online classrooms.
* Student Resource Center: there is a link for access to a web page “Student Resource Center.” The Resource Center provides for easy access to all of our policies/procedures and additional information regarding applying for certification. We also have many links to many outside reference sites, such as online libraries that you may freely access.
* Online Evaluation: there is a link in the classroom where you may access the course evaluation. All students completing a course, must, without exception, complete the course evaluation.
* Faculty Access Information: you will have access to your instructor’s online resume/biography, as well as your instructor’s specific contact information.
* Additional Learning Materials: some faculty have prepared additional “readings” and /or brief lecture notes to enhance your experience. All of these are available in the online classrooms.
COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Utilize counselor ethical standards with clients
- Comprehend the basic science of counseling
- Understand basic attending skills to a client
- Understand the basic responding skills to a client
- Use questioning effectively in counseling
- Use paraphrasing and summarization effectively in counseling
- Help clients facilitate change and new meaning to their situations
- Help clients be able to reframe past events
- Aid clients in finding resiliency and confidence
- Use empathy and unconditional favor towards a client via reflection and understanding
- Show awareness for cultural bias and the importance for multicultural counseling skills
- Possess the skills to conduct a five-stage counseling session
COURSE CONTENT:
A brief abstract of content:
- Supplemental Readings and Videos
- The Foundations of Counseling and Psychotherapy
- Ethics, Multicultural Competence, Neuroscience and Positive Psychology
- Attending and Empathy Skills
- Observation Skills
- Questions: Opening Communication
- Encouraging, Paraphrasing and Summarizing: Active Listening and Cognition
- Reflective Feeling: The Heart of Empathetic Understanding
- How to Conduct a Five-Stage Counseling Session Using Only Listening Skills
- Focusing on the Counseling Session: Contextualizing and Broadening the Story
- Empathetic Confrontation: Identifying and Challenging Client Conflict
- Reflection of Meaning and Interpretation/Reframing: Helping Clients Restory Their Lives
- Action Skills for Building Resilience and Managing Stress: Self-Disclosure, Feedback, Logical Consequences, Directives/Instruction, and Psychoeducation
- Counseling Theory and Practice: How to Integrate the Microskills with Multiple Approaches
- Skill Integration, Determining Person Style and Transcendence
- The Ivey Taxonomy: Definitions of Microskills and Strategies with Anticipated Client Response
- Ethics
- The Family Genogram
- Counseling Neuroscience/Neurobiology, and Microskills