Counseling Micro Skills are the basic techniques of the counseling conversation: active listening, paraphrasing and reflection of feelings, probing, summarizing, confrontation, reframing, and normalizing. At InterCoast Colleges, they are explored via role-playing activities.
What it covers
The catalog states: “In addition to didactic lecture, each class will explore the basic counseling micro skills via role-playing activities which involve active listening, paraphrasing and reflection of feelings, probing, summarizing, confrontation, reframing, and normalizing.”
This course is designed to provide a practical integrative approach to counseling. Students also gain knowledge of the fundamental principles of counseling and the counseling relationship.
Which program covers it
In InterCoast Colleges’ Associate of Applied Science Degree — Substance Use Disorder Counseling program and Alcohol and Drug Counseling Studies program, counseling micro skills is covered in the course AOD226, Counseling Competencies.
The Associate of Applied Science Degree — Substance Use Disorder Counseling and Alcohol and Drug Counseling Studies outlines list AOD226 Counseling Competencies at 45 clock hours (45 lecture, 0 laboratory) and 3 semester credits.
The catalog lists no prerequisites for AOD226 (“NONE”).
Related counseling topics include case management, law and ethics and alcoholism and narcotic addiction, in the Alcohol and Drug Counseling Studies and Associate of Applied Science Degree — Substance Use Disorder Counseling programs.
This topic is covered in the Alcohol and Drug Counseling Studies program at InterCoast Colleges.