Major Objective:

To help students integrate their academic studies into care-giving counseling practices and skills so that they may become capable of reaching a diagnosis as well as treatment planning within their clinical work details:

1. Students should understand & be familiar with all sets of emotions and feelings (COUN 22)
2. Students should be able of detecting & differentiating various emotions and feelings, and discerning them from facts and behaviors (COUN 22)
3. Students should develop and nurture their skills in interpreting and analyzing feelings and behaviors to reach objective clinical conclusions (COUN 23)
4. Students should know how to appropriately respond to and manage with different emotional expressions with appropriate communications skills (COUN 23)
5. Students should be familiar with special emotional or behavioral situations, and learn appropriate techniques, like crisis management and de-escalation (COUN 24)
6. Students should learn basics of group dynamics and leadership skills to be integrated (COUN 24)