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Unit of Study COUN2005 - Counselling Skills 3 (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    All students are required to meet compulsory participation requirements to pass the unit. Online students must attend a 3 day on-campus residential.

Unit description

This unit introduces students to a specific contemporary counselling modality. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of key modality-specific principles and processes and to develop a capacity to apply a range of counselling skills related to the modality being taught, with knowledge and skills demonstrated within the classroom setting and through a range of assessment tasks.  

Unit content

  1. Introduction to counselling modality
  2. Micro skills l
  3. Micro skills lI
  4. Micro skills lII
  5. Structuring ongoing counselling sessions
  6. Skill consolidation and integration

 

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:

demonstrate a sound theoretical and clinical understanding of a specific counselling modality

apply a range of introductory, modality-specific counselling skills, according to professional codes of conduct and ethical principles

demonstrate and appropriately apply a range of foundational counselling skills within counselling sessions

evaluate and constructively critique the process of counselling, including their own professional practice