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Basic interviewing and helping skills relevant to the helping profession in Aboriginal settings. Interpersonal skills which facilitate the prevention and amelioration of problems.

Parent and student interviews. Practicing interviewing techniques within the context of the student's own community and culture.

Career patterns development, occupational choice relevant to native and northern careers. Basic studies of career development and career/educational planning in northern communities. Employment trends, occupational classification and information.

Adolescent sexuality and concurrent problems, substance addictions, physical abuse and violence, and suicide within the milieu of the native family, with a review of possible basic interventions for remediation. The roles of teachers, counsellors, social workers, physicians and legal authorities.

Models and methods of crisis intervention as well as the development of skills in working with individuals experiencing emotional trauma, and identifying referral sources for individuals who require medical or psychiatric consultation.

An extended practicum experience which commences at the beginning of formal academic training. On-going development of student personnel services training experience at the individual and group level, "progress file" and evaluation of performance over the course of training, organization and administration of student personnel services. This comprises site visits, workshops and seminars interwoven with the other courses.

Examination of Indigenous family dynamics and educational, social and administrative institutions that support families in the learning process. A study of the interdependency of the various institutions affecting the education of Indigenous children. Relationships of non-educational to educational services.

A study of the teacher's role in the total school health program at both elementary and high school levels; current issues in contemporary health education.

Intensive training in observation of the development and behaviour of children as individuals and as members of modern First Nations or Inuit society. Study of educational implications of both common and divergent behaviour. Development of relevant teaching practices.