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Unit of Study COUN1002 - Ethical Issues in Practice (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

This unit comprehensively equips counselling students to understand and comply with the requirements and expectations associated with being a professional counsellor practising in Australia.

Unit content

  1. Introduction to ethics
  2. Ethical and legal Issues in counselling
  3. Professional ethics
  4. Moral theory
  5. Ethics theory
  6. Decision-making

 

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Location Domestic International
Online
Term2
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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 significance of ethics within counselling practice, underpinned by an understanding of moral theory and ethical principles and responsibilities

examine key concepts of ethical and legal issues in counselling

utilise a decision-making framework for resolving ethical dilemmas arising in counselling

demonstrate an understanding of the legal requirements and ethical obligations as a professional counsellor

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