James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2020
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SS1112 - Multicultural, Child and Adolescent Counselling
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | College of Healthcare Sciences |
Subject Description
- 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
Subject Assessment
- Non-Invigilated > Assignments
Note that 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.
Inadmissible Subject Combinations: SS1105
Availabilities
JCU Singapore, Study Period 52, Internal | |
| Census date: | Thursday, 06 Aug 2020 |
| Study Period Dates: | Monday, 13 Jul 2020 to Friday, 16 Oct 2020 |
| Coordinator(s): | DR Jagdeep Kaur |
| Lecturer(s): | DR Jagdeep Kaur |
| Workload expectations: | The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.
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| Restrictions: | An enrolment quota applies. |