Unit of Study COUN2001 Counselling Skills 2 (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 3 day on-campus residential.

Unit description

This unit introduces students to a specific cognitive-informed 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

Introduction to counselling modality
Micro skills l
Micro skills lI
Micro skills lII
Structuring ongoing counselling sessions
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 theoretical and clinical understanding of a specific contemporary 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

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

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