Psychology: Clinical Interviewing

Description

This course is intended for students interested in careers involving interpersonal relationships including counseling, teaching, social work, and psychology. Studies in basic developmental theory will supplement class work focused on developing skills in intentional interviewing and how these skills connect to family systems concepts. Students will explore how their own history reflects and shapes their work with others, as a foundation for further learning, academic training, and experience. Students must use their own audio tape and playback equipment or equipment available through media loan to transcribe and analyze in-class interviews and role plays as they develop skills in understanding the role of the observer in gathering clinical, personal, and ethnographic information. Self and faculty evaluations are required.