SS1112 - Multicultural, Child and Adolescent Counselling

Credit points:	03
Year:	2008
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	Discipline of Psychology

This subject is designed to address issues in multicultural counselling, and explores effects of race and gender on the counselling relationship. Counselling children and adolescents has much in common with basic counselling. Students have the opportunity to examine these similarities, and differences, and apply this knowledge to interviewing a child or adolescent.

Learning Outcomes

• awareness of gender and race issues in counselling;
• awareness of strategies and issues in counselling children;
• awareness of strategies and issues in counselling adolescents;
• awareness of strategies and issues in multicultural counselling;
• ability to apply counselling microskills to multicultural, child and adolescent contexts.

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 2
Census Date 05-Sep-2008
Coord/Lect:	jc173918.
Method of Delivery:	Printed materials
Assessment:	assignments.
External, Study Period 1
Census Date 04-Apr-2008
Coord/Lect:	jc173918.
Method of Delivery:	Printed materials
Assessment:	assignments.
JCU Singapore, Block, Study Period 52
Census Date 25-Jul-2008
Face to face teaching 30-Jun-2008 to 10-Oct-2008
Coordinator:	jc173918
Lecturers:	Dr Koong Foo, jc204899.
Assessment:	assignments.

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.