Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Online |
Unit description
Overviews the role of the counsellor within an Australian context, and shows how research, personal self-awareness and skill development contribute to the development of the therapeutic relationship in counselling.
Unit content
Topic 1: What is counselling?
Topic 2: The therapeutic relationship
Topic 3: Self-awareness for the counsellor
Topic 4: Theories in counselling - psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural, humanistic-existential
Topic 5: Micro skills 1 - attending skills and observation
Topic 6: Micro skills 2 - questioning
Topic 7: Micro skills 3 - responding
Topic 8: Micro skills 4 - reflection of feeling
Topic 9: The process of counselling
Topic 10: Multicultural issues
Topic 11: Ethical issues
Topic 12: Counselling as professional practice (including unit summary)
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discuss the role and professional identity of the counsellor | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||||
| 2 | outline the major issues for ethical counselling practice in an Australian context | Ethical practice | ||||||
| 3 | critique issues of self-awareness for the counsellor | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 4 | demonstrate an understanding of basic principles of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural and humanistic-existential counselling | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||||
| 5 | successfully demonstrate beginning counselling skills | Communication and social skills | ||||||
| 6 | reflect upon and evaluate their own values and beginning skill development. | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | |||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- discuss the role and professional identity of the counsellor
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- outline the major issues for ethical counselling practice in an Australian context
- GA3: Ethical practice
- critique issues of self-awareness for the counsellor
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- demonstrate an understanding of basic principles of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural and humanistic-existential counselling
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- successfully demonstrate beginning counselling skills
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- reflect upon and evaluate their own values and beginning skill development.
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA6: Communication and social skills
Prescribed texts
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
- Geldard, D, Geldard, K & Yin Foo, R, 2016, Basic Personal Counselling: a Training Manual for Counsellors, 8th edn, Cengage Learning Australia , South Melbourne, Australia. ISBN: 9780170364362.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Tutorial online 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Lecture online 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Essay | 40% |
| Recorded Interview | 30% |
| Written Evaluation | 30% |
| Participation | SR |
Fee information
Domestic
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International
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