CRIM 139 - Criminal Justice Counseling Skills Practicum

Prerequisite: highly recommend CRIM 134 or permission of instructor
An experiential course designed to teach students essential skills in structuring counseling sessions with offenders. Emphasis on listening, validation, empathy, interviewing, probing, concreteness, self-disclosure, summarizing, confrontation, goal-setting, taking action, closure, and resistance.

Units: 3