Graduate Counselling and Applied Psychology (GCAP) 635

Overview

The Intervening to Facilitate Client Change course is designed to be taken concurrent with GCAP 671, building on the counselling microskills and techniques mastered in that course, as well as on the foundational relational principles and practices that support building and maintaining a working alliance. In GCAP 635, students focus on mastery of the intentional use of counselling microskills, techniques, and strategies to co-construct goals and collaborate with clients to facilitate change at the micro, meso, and macro levels of intervention. Students will learn how to engage in culturally responsive and socially just change processes with, or on behalf of, clients.

Outline

Spring Online Learning Processes

• Week 1: Responsive Change Processes
• Week 6: Collaborative Influence, Goal-Setting, and Working with Actions
• Week 7: Working with Thoughts and Beliefs, Emotions and Sensations
• Week 8: Working with Stories

Summer Institute Learning Processes

The summer institute portion of the course runs for seven days, with 39 hours of direct face-to-face instruction.

• Class 12: Collaborative Influence and Goal-Setting
• Class 13: Goal-Setting and Case Conceptualization
• Class 14: Working with Actions I
• Class 15: Working with Actions II
• Class 16: Working with Thoughts and Beliefs I
• Class 17: Working with Thoughts and Beliefs II
• Class 18: Working with Emotions I
• Class 19: Working with Emotions I
• Class 20: Working with Stories I
• Class 21: Working with Stories II
• Class 22: Case Conceptualization I
• Class 23: Case Conceptualization II
• Class 24: Endings

Course Evaluation

To receive credit for GCAP 635, students must submit all of the course assignments, achieve a minimum grade of B- (70 percent) on Assignment 4, and obtain a composite grade of at least B- (70 percent) on the course. The weighing of the composite grade is as follows: