Introduction to Counseling Skills

Course overview

Counseling skills are an important and often overlooked aspect of clinical practice for speech language pathologists and other allied health professionals working in a variety of settings. This course, with Rebecca Hunting Pompon, is the first in a three-part series defining the importance of and providing training in counseling skills for allied health professionals. In the first installment of the series, Introduction to Counseling, Dr. Hunting Pompon provides a rationale for the importance of counseling, describes key boundaries for counseling in clinical practice, and explores systems theory and multicultural considerations that are essential to clinicians developing counseling skills in the contemporary healthcare system. Clinical examples, relevant research, and role play scenarios are utilized to introduce counseling skills and their importance.