REH 6330 - Crisis Counseling

Credits: 3 hrs

This course is designed to prepare students to respond effectively in critical situations and to help counsel clients who are experiencing crisis events in their lives. Students will learn that crisis interventions are founded on theory and be able to apply that theory to crisis intervention techniques. Special attention will be paid to counseling approaches for use with circumstantial and developmental life crisis. Special attention is given to disability and multicultural considerations. Relevant evidence-based treatment and empirical research will be reviewed.