ED1801 - Introduction to Counselling Skills

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	National Priority Band
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The subject looks at the nature of counselling, the role of a counsellor and introduces basic counselling skills. Students follow Gerard Egans 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 Outcomes

• ability to demonstrate an awareness of issues of ethics and confidentiality in the helping role;
• ability to demonstrate basic counselling skills of attending, questioning, paraphrasing, summarising, reflection of content and feeling and confrontation;
• ability to demonstrate basic skills of critical self-reflection of own counselling skill development through reflective writing;
• ability to demonstrate transferability of basic counselling skills to client situations.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

SS1105

Availabilities
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Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Face to face teaching (Consult School for on-campus attendance requirements)
Coord/Lect:	jc144303.
Contact hours:	39 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.