SS1111 - Introduction to Counselling
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | Discipline of Psychology |
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 |
Availabilities | |
| External, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 30-Mar-2007 | |
| Coord/Lect: | jc164761. |
| Method of Delivery: | Printed materials |
| Assessment: | assignments (80%); multiple choice test: 20% (20%). |
| External, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 31-Aug-2007 | |
| Coordinator: | jc173918 |
| Method of Delivery: | Printed materials |
| Assessment: | assignments (80%); multiple choice test: 20% (20%). |
| JCU Singapore, Block, Study Period 52 | |
| Census Date 31-Aug-2007 | |
| Face to face teaching 02-Jul-2007 to 28-Sep-2007 (Delivered through St Frances Methodist School) | |
| Coordinator: | Mr John Livingston |
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| Assessment: | assignments (80%); multiple choice test: 20% (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.