SS1112 - Multicultural, Child and Adolescent Counselling

Credit points:	03
Year:	2013
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Arts & Social Sciences

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
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51
Census Date 21-Mar-2013
Coordinator:	Dr David Mitchell
Lecturer:	Dr Denise Dillon.
Contact hours:	12 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
Assessment:	assignments.
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53
Census Date 14-Nov-2013
Coordinator:	Dr David Mitchell
Lecturer:	Ms Mishelle Ryan.
Contact hours:	12 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
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.