MDSC 6510 - Health Promotion and Patient Counseling I

This is the first course in a three-semester series presented sequentially through the preclinical year of training. This course will focus on the knowledge, skills and attitudes requisite for counseling and educating patients. These courses will emphasize counseling techniques, with application to clinical problems such as crisis intervention, substance abuse, human sexuality, multiculturalism, and patient/practitioner transference/counter transference. Theories of personality and psychopathology will be investigated as they relate to patient and practitioner coping styles and effectiveness. Students will also develop expertise in educating patients in wellness and disease prevention. Students will investigate the caregiver role and become insightful regarding their own needs and limitations.

Note: Open to graduate students only.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Successful completion of prior semester of P.A. course work or departmental permission

Credits: 1 hour