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Psychology 460
Counseling & Interviewing
California State University, Northridge
Sheila. K. Grant, Ph.D.
Overview of Course
•Syllabus
•Schedule of Activities
•General Introduction
•Microcounseling / Microskills Approach
–What is it?
–Microskills Hierachy
–Attending Skills
–Listening Skills (Active Listening)
–Influencing Skills
–Focus & Selective Attention
–Confrontation
–5-Stage Interview Model
Introduction
•Corey’s perspective:
–No single model can explain all the facets of
human experience
•Eleven approaches to counseling and
psychotherapy are discussed
•The Corey book assumes:
–Students can begin to acquire a counseling
style tailored to their own personality
•The process will take years
•Different theories are not “right” or “wrong”
Introduction
•Gerald Corey
Where Corey Stands
•He is strongly influenced by the existential
approach and so believes:
–Clients can exercise freedom to choose their
future
– The quality of the client/therapist relationship
is KEY
•He likes to use a variety of techniques:
–Role playing and various techniques from
cognitive and behavioral therapy approaches
Where Corey Stands
•He believes:
–“…counseling entails far more than becoming a skilled
technician”
•Who you are as a therapist, is critical
•Students should experience being a “client ” and feel
anxiety over self disclosure, and learn to model
courage and growth
–It is not “sufficient to be merely a good person with good
intentions”
•Also essential are a knowledge of counseling theory
and techniques, theories of personality, and
supervised experiences
