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Unit of Study COUN2006 - Counselling Families and Couples (2025)

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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 2 day on-campus residential.

Unit description

This unit equips students with an understanding of family dynamics and couple work to provide a framework with which to explore a couple or family’s dilemmas.

Unit content

  1. Introduction to counselling families and couples
  2. Beginning the work with family and couples
  3. Process skills for family and couple I
  4. Process skills for family and couple II
  5. Case assessment
  6. Skills integration

 

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Term2
Term2
Gold Coast
Term2
Term2
Lismore
Term2
Term2
Online
Term2
Term2

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:

understand differences in individual, couple, family systems, structure, developmental stages and changes and counselling approaches

assess family and couple dynamics in counselling settings using case conceptualisations

identify ethical and legal issues when working with families and couples

recognise commonly presenting issues in family work, couple work, and be able to identify and select effective counselling interventions

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