HS 2400:Interviewing Skills for the Helping Professions

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS majors or HS Interest or Non-Majors with permission of Department.
This required course introduces students to interviewing skills in non-crisis settings. Communication skills learned in the course include relation skills building techniques within a problem solving model. Additionally, students learn skills to identify client strengths and to work with resistant clients. Students are required to role-play, videotape, and critique skills learned in the course. The goal of this course is to expose the student to a variety of perspectives used by all human service workers.