SS1111 - Introduction to Counselling
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
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This subject is designed as an introduction to basic counselling concepts and skills. It is intended to provide students with basic communication skills and an awareness of some of the personal and professional issues facing the counsellor. A microskills approach to counselling has been chosen as it offers a foundation which will help students understand and work more effectively with many diverse approaches to facilitating client growth and development.
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate knowledge of the issues involved in confidentiality and ethics;
- demonstrate knowledge of the nature of counselling, the counselling relationship, the effects of the counsellors values and beliefs on the counselling relationship and the counsellors own needs;
- incorporate these microskills in interviews;
- awareness of the basic microskills of attending, questioning, client observation, encouraging, paraphrasing and summarising and reflection of feeling.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | SS1105 |
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| , Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2006 | |
| Coordinator: | edbkw |
| Method of Delivery: | Printed materials |
| Assessment: | (80%); (20%). |
| , , Study Period 33 | |
| Census Date 21-Jul-2006 | |
| Face to face teaching 17-Jul-2006 to 18-Aug-2006 | |
| Coordinator: | edbkw |
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| Assessment: | (70%); (30%). |
| , Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 08-Sep-2006 | |
| Coord/Lect: | jc164761. |
| Method of Delivery: | Printed materials |
| Assessment: | (80%); (20%). |
| , , Study Period 37 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2006 | |
| Face to face teaching (Delivered through St Frances Methodist School) | |
| Coordinator: | edbkw |
| Contact hours: |
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| Assessment: | (80%); (20%). |
| , , Study Period 26 | |
| Census Date 20-Oct-2006 | |
| Face to face teaching (Delivered through St Frances Methodist School) | |
| Coordinator: | edbkw |
| Contact hours: |
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| Assessment: | (80%); (20%). |
| , , Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 22-Dec-2006 | |
| Face to face teaching 06-Nov-2006 to 02-Feb-2007 (Delivered through St Frances Methodist School) | |
| Coordinator: | edbkw |
| Contact hours: |
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| Assessment: | (80%); (20%). |
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.