Applied Helping Skills

Program Overview

For both personal and professional reasons, it is essential that you know how to effectively speak and interact with people who are both similar to and different from you. 

Professionally, employers regularly say they are looking for applicants who have the self-awareness and communication skills to work in diverse, dynamic teams. However, those same employers also claim that these are the skills that are most lacking in job applicants. 

On the personal level, people are lonelier now than ever before, a fact that is largely attributed to a decline in people’s abilities to connect with others. These feelings of loneliness can lead to a range of negative life outcomes, including declines in physical and mental health. 

This program would be relevant to students who aspire to work in helping professions such as counseling and healthcare. Students majoring in disciplines such as behavioral science, human development and family studies, and nursing would thus be ideal candidates for this program.

This residential program has rolling admission. Applications must be fully complete and submitted (including all required materials) and all application fees paid prior to the deadline in order for applications to be considered and reviewed. For a list of all required materials for this program application, please see the “Admissions” section.