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Coaching Models for Third Age Clients

Unit Code: HAYD440

Duration

Contact Hours

Campus

Prerequisite

Corequisite

1 Semester

Online

Admission to the Graduate Diploma in Career Development, or equivalent as assessed by the program convenor.

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

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Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Graduate Diploma in Career Development.


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Aims & Objectives:

This unit of study provides students with knowledge of different coaching models applicable to third age clients with the view of selecting the most appropriate to local requirements.


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Teaching Methods:

Off campus / e-learning


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Assessment:

Consultation Report 50%, Review Questionnaire 50%.


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Generic Skills Outcomes:

Distinguish between various Models that can be used to facilitate third age client management.

Understand the holistic nature of third age client issues and why life-work coaching is more applicable than career coaching.

 


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Content:

Topics canvass the many models that can be used with third age clients including: The life management review model, Identify development model and the Retirement-recycling model.

The unit also provides templates and checklists for the student to develop a resource guide for their own third age client interventions

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Recommended Reading:

Kimeldorf, M, 2000, Gourmet Aging: A Guidebook for your excursion through elderhood, e-book download

Richard Nelson Bolles 1999.  How to do Life/Work Planning. Keynote address presented at the International Conference on Careers Guidance: Careers Guidance – Which Way Now?, in Bled, Slovenia, Wednesday, May

Scheef D. & Thielfoldt D.  What the Generations Want From Their Careers.  In  M. Venning 2006

International Perspectives: New Roles for Career Professionals. pp 236-278

Job E. 1984 EightyPlus: Outgrowing the Myths of Old Age, Queensland; University of Queensland Press,

Cohen G. D. 2000 The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life, , Avon Books, New York.

Gambone, J. V.  2000 Refirement: A Boomer’s Guide to Life After 50,  Kirk House Publishers, Minneapolis.

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