Unit of Study COUN2004 Counselling Children and Young People (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Health
Placement

No

Pre-requisites

COUN1001 - Counselling Skills 1 AND WELF1003 - Counselling Theory and Practice

Enrolment information

All students are required to meet compulsory participation requirements to pass the unit. Online students must attend a 2 day on-campus residential.

Unit description

This unit introduces students to the theoretical knowledge and counselling skills associated with counselling children and young people, including a range of individual, family, creative and group therapies.

Unit content

Introduction to counselling children and young people
Ethical and legal Issues
Counselling approaches
Significance of play
Case examples
Counselling skills

Availabilities

Not currently available in 2024

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:

recognise the developmental stages in both children and adolescents

identify and appropriately select from a range of individual and group therapies suitable for use with children and adolescents

identify ethical and legal issues when working with children and adolescents

apply counselling skills required for working with children and adolescents, recognising appropriate and inappropriate application of those skills

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