PSY 720 - Clinical Practice I: Basic Skills

Units: 2
When Offered: Fall
This course focuses on the development of basic helping skills in psychotherapy, including the importance of the client-therapist relationship, the here-and-now, process versus content, self-awareness, empathy, warmth, building and maintaining a therapeutic alliance, establishing treatment goals, and working towards change, applying this skill-set to the profession of clinical psychology. Students receive six hours of training in suicide risk assessment and intervention, and direct observation is used via mock therapy sessions to help students develop foundational clinical skills.