LSK303 - Life Skills

Subject Title
Life Skills

Subject Description
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of life skills coaching. This course explores the following topics: goal setting, strategizing for success, understanding and coping with transitions, managing emotions, listening skills, study skills, relationship skills, setting boundaries, importance of a balanced life, preventing burn-out, job readiness, coping with loss, re-entry skills, self-care, responsibility and empowerment, personal motivation, civic involvement, developing a philosophy of life.
 
Life Skills is a 2-hour core requirement in the DTR program. It complements and connects to LSP320, LSO403, REC208 and SWO400.

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject the student will be able to:

The main objectives of this course are:

• To help students better understand themselves and their strengths as a life skills coach and how they best work with clients.
• To engage students in an examination of life skills coaching and potential for working with clients as part of a therapeutic intervention program.
• To provide students with various theoretical approaches and life skills coaching models for managing client needs.
• To explore life skills coaching resources that may be used in conjunction with positive psychology, human lifespan development and learning theories to develop therapeutic intervention.

1. Describe the history and purpose of life skills coaching. (Cognitive/Comprehension)
2. Design goals and objectives for a therapeutic intervention to promote life skills. (Cognitive/Synthesis)
3. Explain the human change process. (Cognitive/Comprehension)
4. Compare and contrast several methods for controlling emotions such as anger management and stress reduction. (Cognitive/Analysis)
5. Describe and demonstrate several listening skill techniques such as paraphrasing and perception checking. (Cognitive/Application)
6. Compare and contrast several study strategies such as memory improvement techniques. (Cognitive/Analysis)
7. Given a case, select the most appropriate self-care strategy or strategies and defend the choice. (Cognitive/Evaluation)
8. Design an effective individual life skills plan which includes a strength analysis, and a strategic plan for resolving identified problems. (Cognitive/Synthesis)

Academic Integrity
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Please visit the Academic Integrity website http://open2.senecac.on.ca/sites/academic-integrity/for-students to understand and learn more about how to prepare and submit work so that it supports academic integrity, and to avoid academic misconduct.

Discrimination/Harassment
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Accommodation for Students with Disabilities
The College will provide reasonable accommodation to students with disabilities in order to promote academic success. If you require accommodation, contact the Counselling and Accessibility Services Office at ext. 22900 to initiate the process for documenting, assessing and implementing your individual accommodation needs.

Camera Use and Recordings - Synchronous (Live) Classes
Synchronous (live) classes may be delivered in person, in a Flexible Learning space, or online through a Seneca web conferencing platform such as MS Teams or Zoom. Flexible Learning spaces are equipped with cameras, microphones, monitors and speakers that capture and stream instructor and student interactions, providing an in-person experience for students choosing to study online.

Students joining a live class online may be required to have a working camera in order to participate, or for certain activities (e.g. group work, assessments), and high-speed broadband access (e.g. Cable, DSL) is highly recommended. In the event students encounter circumstances that impact their ability to join the platform with their camera on, they should reach out to the professor to discuss. Live classes may be recorded and made available to students to support access to course content and promote student learning and success.

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