Course

Advanced Interpersonal Skills in Leisure Counselling

Faculty
Applied Community Studies
Department
Therapeutic Recreation
Course Code
THRT 3505
Credits
3.00
Semester Length
15 weeks. This course may be offered in a condensed format over a shorter period of time.
Max Class Size
30
Method(s) Of Instruction
Lecture
Lab
Course Designation
None
Industry Designation
None
Typically Offered
To be determined

Overview

Course Description
This course builds upon a foundation of basic communication and helping skills , enabling students to effectively provide advanced leisure counselling services. A focus is on reflective practice in developing oneself into a resilient practitioner. Application of therapeutic recreation assessment practices will set the foundation for students to provide leisure counselling services for both individuals and groups in therapeutic recreation and health promotion settings.
Course Content

Professional Behaviour

  • Values, ethics and ethical conduct
  • Competence
  • Confidentiality; informed practice
  • Self-reflective practice
  • Resiliency
  • Compassion fatigue

Relationship Building Skills

  • Observational skills
  • Active listening skills:  attending, paraphrasing, empathy, questions, summary, self-disclosure
  • Cycle of caring
  • Relationship building

Leisure Counselling

  • Definitions, models and theories, leisure counselling
  • Application of leisure counselling techniques
  • Application of Therapeutic Recreation in clinical and community settings
  • Trauma-informed practice

Empowerment Skills

  • Strengths/assets focus
  • Supporting, empowering

Challenge Skills

  • Advanced empathy, reframing
  • Helper self-disclosure

Confrontation skills

Goal setting and WRAP action planning

  • Wellness Recovery Action Plan
  • Client empowerment

Diversity Counselling

  • Clients with challenging behaviours
  • Cultural awareness
  • Equity, diversity and inclusion

Group Counselling and Therapeutic Recreation

  • Assessing, facilitation and evaluating leisure counselling groups

Therapeutic Recreation Assessment

  • Application of assessment skills within a leisure counselling context
Learning Activities

In this course, students engage in a variety of learning activities such as lecture, small group discussions, case studies, role play, practice counselling sessions, and video and audio recording

Means of Assessment

Assessment will be based on course objectives and will be carried out in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy.  An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course. This is a graded course.

Typical means of evaluation would include a combination of:

  • Written reports
  • Presentations
  • Testing
  • Audio Visual assignments

 

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  1. demonstrate professional behaviour; specifically ethics, confidentiality and self-awareness;
  2. demonstrate active listening and relationship building skills;
  3. demonstrate the effective use of challenge skills;
  4. demonstrate skills in empowerment, including goal setting and action planning;
  5. describe methods for responding to the diverse needs, abilities, and experiences of clients;
  6. integrate theories of leisure and counselling into a practice of leisure counselling;
  7. describe the theories, models, interventions and service of leisure counselling;
  8. apply theory of group process to the facilitation and evaluation of a leisure counselling group.
Textbook Materials

Textbooks and materials are to be purchased by students.  A list of required textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of the semester.

Requisites

Prerequisites

THRT 2444

OR

THRT 2455

OR

THRT 1102 and THRT 1205 and THRT 2406

Students in the Therapeutic Recreation diploma program are required to maintain a passing grade of 60% (C) in all courses in order to progress in the program.

Corequisites

No corequisite courses.

Equivalencies

No equivalent courses.

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

Course Transfers

These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca

Institution Transfer Details for THRT 3505
Simon Fraser University (SFU) No credit
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) UFV KIN 366 (3)
University of Victoria (UVIC) UVIC EPHE 2XX (1.5)

Course Offerings

Summer 2024