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ED6077Interpersonal Processes and Practice in Counselling Psychology
This course explores counselling /psychotherapy as an interactive, interpersonal process. Relational models of growth and therapeutic practice will be examined. The therapeutic relationship is the scene of this interpersonal encounter and, as such, therapeutic dialogue and interaction represent the ways in which counsellors respond to clients’ suffering. This course examines the counsellor’s participation in therapeutic process and explores how therapeutic language, counsellor self-awareness and openness to experience, influence its evolution. This course presumes a reasonably sophisticated understanding of psychotherapeutic theory and practice. Limited to Counselling students. Enrolment Cap is 15. Restricted to Counselling Students Prerequisites: ED 6071 and ED 6072 .