Helping Relationships for Non-Majors

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Increase self-awareness and understanding of the importance of maintaining a therapeutic relationship with your clients/students/patients.

• Increase understanding of how you will bring these helping skills to your chosen career in human services.

• Understand the essential helping skills necessary for developing a therapeutic relationship, establishing appropriate goals, designing intervention strategies, evaluating client outcomes, and successfully terminating the helper-client relationship.

• Increase awareness for the cultural realities of those you will work with and how those realities might have implications for the therapeutic relationship, your approach, and the change process.

• Understand of and appreciate the diverse experiences presented by the learning community of this class.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Chapter Check-Points	36 points
Identity Map and Cultural Awareness Exploration	31 points
Process Journals	60 points
Final Skills Assessment	45 points
Participation Self-Assessment	18 points
Attendance, Preparedness, and Participation	45 points
Total	235 points

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
93-100%	A
90-92%	A-
87-89%	B+
83-86%	B
80-82%	B-
77-79%	C+
73-76%	C
70-72%	C-
60-69%	D
0-59%	F

Attendance/Participation:

Due to the experiential nature of this course, class attendance is required and essential for your learning. It is your responsibility to make sure you are counted present each day by signing the attendance sheet.

You are permitted two absences (excused/unexcused) over the course of the semester before your grade is affected. This includes absence due to illness, injury, crisis, or emergency. It is recommended that you hold on to the absence until you need it as each additional absence will result in the loss of 3 points per absence from your participation grade.

Tardiness and leaving class early are disruptive to class and disrespectful to others in the learning community; please be on time and do not leave until class is dismissed. Class will begin promptly at the scheduled time and end at the scheduled time. Chronic disruptions to class due to late arrivals and leaving early will affect your final grade – each tardy or leaving early will result in the loss of one point per occurrence from your attendance grade.

Absences for exams, quizzes, and activities will be excused only in special curricular requirements (e.g., judging trips, field trips, professional conferences), military obligation, severe weather conditions, religious holidays and participation in official university activities, and court-imposed legal obligations (e.g., jury duty or subpoena). You must communicate this with the instructor in advance.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

No course materials are required.