Education 697SK - ST-Helping Skills/Higher Ed Pr

The purpose of this course is to provide professionals in higher education with a foundational understanding of helping skills. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to demonstrate basic helping skills; including active listening skills, nonverbal and verbal responses, dynamic empathetic and compassionate interactions. The focus of this course will also translate learned helping skills into the development of helping strategies and interventions to fit a variety of settings within higher education. It should be noted that this course is not meant to develop professional counseling skills, however, it is meant for higher education professionals to understand and demonstrate helping skills within an institutions context so that they can effectively perform their duties and responsibilities as helping professionals.