Lecture: 2 hours/week
and
Lab: 2 hours/week
In this course, students engage in a variety of learning activities such as lecture, small group discussions, case studies, role play, practice counselling sessions, and video and audio recording
Professional Behaviour
- Values, ethics and ethical conduct
- Competence
- Confidentiality; informed practice
- Self-reflective practice
- Resiliency
- Compassion fatigue
Relationship Building Skills
- Observational skills
- Active listening skills: attending, paraphrasing, empathy, questions, summary, self-disclosure
- Cycle of caring
- Relationship building
Leisure Counselling
- Definitions, models and theories, leisure counselling
- Application of leisure counselling techniques
- Application of Therapeutic Recreation in clinical and community settings
- Trauma-informed practice
Empowerment Skills
- Strengths/assets focus
- Supporting, empowering
Challenge Skills
- Advanced empathy, reframing
- Helper self-disclosure
Confrontation skills
Goal setting and WRAP action planning
- Wellness Recovery Action Plan
- Client empowerment
Diversity Counselling
- Clients with challenging behaviours
- Cultural awareness
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
Group Counselling and Therapeutic Recreation
- Assessing, facilitation and evaluating leisure counselling groups
Therapeutic Recreation Assessment
- Application of assessment skills within a leisure counselling context
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate professional behaviour; specifically ethics, confidentiality and self-awareness;
- demonstrate active listening and relationship building skills;
- demonstrate the effective use of challenge skills;
- demonstrate skills in empowerment, including goal setting and action planning;
- describe methods for responding to the diverse needs, abilities, and experiences of clients;
- integrate theories of leisure and counselling into a practice of leisure counselling;
- describe the theories, models, interventions and service of leisure counselling;
- apply theory of group process to the facilitation and evaluation of a leisure counselling group.
Assessment will be based on course objectives and will be carried out in accordance with the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½Evaluation Policy. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course. This is a graded course.
Typical means of evaluation would include a combination of:
- Written reports
- Presentations
- Testing
- Audio Visual assignments
Textbooks and materials are to be purchased by students. A list of required textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of the semester.