Counseling

Deal with feelings of anger without emotionally or physically damaging someone else in the process. Honest and spontaneous expression can and will help to prevent inappropriate and destructive anger.

Understanding alcohol problems, assessment of the individual, giving appropriate help within one's own competence and for making decisions on when to make professional referrals and when to seek the advice of others.

This course introduces the student to skills and attitudes fundamental to the process of helping others. This course is of benefit to teachers, health care professionals, social workers, those involved in youth programs, and personnel management as well as those involved in, and supervising staff in business and commerce.

Working with the bereaved is a specialized and important area in counseling work requiring empathy based on knowledge of the stages and characteristics of bereavement. The sense of loss, intense grief and depression that follow bereavement can be almost unbearable, and the need for counseling is often a desperate one.