Winter 1
This course includes training in effective consultation for helping professionals (e.g., physicians, social workers, nurses, counsellors, psychologists). Focusing on Process Consultation, and communication, collaboration and leadership skills. There will also be a focus on enhancing motivation towards beneficial change, as well as encouraging sustainable and generalizable outcomes.
The course will include skills for working with individual, group and organizational clients as well as across settings (e.g., schools, community organizations and hospitals), with their unique timetables and goals. Students will practice case assessment and intervention via a consultee-centered approach. Allison Cloth, PhD, works from an ecological/humanist perspective, has worked as a consultant across various settings and has received advanced training in Motivational Interviewing.