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CSD 618 COUNSELING AND INTERVIEWING SKILLS IN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS
FALL 2007
DESCRIPTION:
This is a structured independent course for second year graduate students in Communication Sciences and Disorders. The course begins in September and is completed by December 2007. The course is designed to (a) build on the counseling and interviewing information learned in the diagnostic class(es) and the first year clinical practicum course in which a model of counseling/interviewing was presented (Luterman, 2001, 4th edition) and (b) relate these issues to the speech-language practicum experiences the student is having in the second year off campus. We will add concepts from the Brammer and MacDonald book this semester to include counseling in all settings—educational and medical. This class will involve four face-to-face, group meetings to introduce the student to the idea of a structured independent, reflective course. The meetings will consist of lectures, discussion and class presentation. The asynchronous (out-of-class) activities will involve structured journal keeping, reading, and reflecting on counseling and interviewing issues in CSD.
INSTRUCTOR:
Robert Mayo, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Office: 342 Ferguson Building
Contact Information: 334-3022,
Office hours: By appointment
Doctoral Teaching Assistant: Jamila Minga, M.S., CCC-SLP,
CLASS LOCATION:
325 Ferguson Building
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES: At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Conduct the three basic types of interviews, (a) information-gathering interviews; information-giving interviews; and counseling interviews.
2. Discuss major models of counseling.
3. Engage in empathetic listening in a clinical setting.
4. Assist individuals to develop appropriate goals related to a communication or swallowing disorder that capitalize on strengths and address weaknesses related to underlying structures and functions that affect communication/swallowing.
4. Facilitate the individual's activities and participation by assisting the person to increase autonomy, self-direction, and responsibility for acquiring and utilizing new skills and strategies that are related to their goals to communicate or swallow more effectively;
CLASS MEETING DATES AND TIMES:
September 7, 12:00-1:30 Introduction to Course and Overview of Models of Counseling (Mayo & Minga)
October 5, 12:00-1:30 The Clinical Interview (Guest Speaker: Professor Terry Ramsey)
November 2, 12:00-1:30 Helping Skills: An Overview (Guest Speaker: Professor Keith Mobley, Director, UNCG Counseling & Consulting Clinic)
November 30, 12:00-1:30 Open Discussion on Counseling and Interviewing
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Brammer, L.M. & MacDonald, G. (2003) The Helping Relationship: Process and skills, 8th edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Luterman, D. (2001) Counseling Persons with Communication Disorders and Their Families, 4th edition. New York: Pro Ed.
ASSIGNMENTS:
Notebook for your Portfolio: Counseling/Interviewing and Professional Practices Notebook
Each student will spend 10-12 hours in experiences which engages them in this literature and these activities. All work for this course as well as the Professional Practices course will be kept in the same notebook, part of your graduate student portfolio. Your work will be shared with other students at the end of the semester. Remember, the notebook is for your use after you graduate as well as for this semester.
Journal
This course requirement is intended to help you integrate what you are learning about counseling and interviewing into your clinical experiences.
First step is to read/review the Luterman book, 4th edition that was used last spring semester in the clinic class and then read Brammer & MacDonald, Chapters 1-4. Next step (and this is the fun one!): Decide on your journal. It can be a spiral notebook or a bound hardcover “book”. Whatever it is, it should be one you will enjoy writing in and will look forward to going to at the end of the week. We do require that it be TYPED, not handwritten.
We are calling this experience “directed journaling” because we are providing prompts for each week’s entry. The prompts are related to the readings in the text as well as elsewhere. We are asking you to engage in this journal writing for at least six weeks and to write at least one entry per week. Feel free to add your own comments, observations, reflections to any entry. See the details on Blackboard and choose six of the prompts listed there, including # 9 which is required of everyone. There is a Word document posted with the prompts, a document about interviewing, an interviewing form and a handout with examples of open/closed questions. You can turn in your journals any time between Nov. 26 and Nov. 30.