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ED1801:03

Introduction to Counselling Skills

Townsville

HECS Band 1

39 hours seminars. February/March block mode.

Available ONLY to students enrolled in the Certificate of Career Counselling.

Staff:

Dr K Walker.

The subject looks at the nature of counselling, the role of a counsellor and introduces basic counselling skills. Students follow Gerard Egan's `Skilled Helper' approach from the set text and are provided with opportunities to practice and reflect on their skill development through in-class activities and reflective journal activities. Awareness of issues of ethics and the impact of personal world view on counselling practice are incorporated into the subject.

Learning Objectives:

ability to demonstrate basic counselling skills of attending, questioning, paraphrasing, summarising, reflection of content and feeling and confrontation;

ability to demonstrate transferability of basic counselling skills to client situations;

ability to demonstrate basic skills of critical self-reflection of own counselling skill development through reflective writing;

ability to demonstrate an awareness of issues of ethics and confidentiality in the helping role.

Assessment by submission of video recording with self critique (50%); completion of reflective journal activities (50%).