Swinburne University of Technology - Melbourne Australia
Future Students - Courses
Duration
Contact Hours
Campus
Prerequisite
Corequisite
1 Semester/teaching period
36
Hawthorn
HAYC411 Foundations of Counselling 1Foundations of Counselling 1
Nil
Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points
A unit of study in the Graduate Certificate of Social Science (Human Services - Counselling), Graduate Diploma of Social Science (Human Services - Counselling) and Master of Social Science (Human Services - Counselling).
This unit of study is designed to continue students' introduction to the practical skills and processes of counselling provided in Foundations of Counselling 1. Students will engage with and reflect on interactional styles and problem-solving skills, will study the stages of the problem management model, and will continue to develop their capacity for active empathy. Students will also be introduced to important theoretical approaches to change, including cognitive, behavioural, affective, and systemic interventions.Students who successfully complete this subject will have the ability to engage with a client over a fifty-minute counselling session, to establish and maintain the therapeutic alliance, assess the client and their problem and resources, explore interventions and strategies appropriate to client needs and presentation, and reflect critically on the counselling process and their own performance.
Lecture, Tutorials, Experiential Exercises, Workshops and Discussions.
Assessment in this subject is non-graded (i.e., Pass is the only grade awarded for successful completion). Students are expected to build on the skills acquired in HAYC411, including appropriate reflections on themselves and the counselling process. There are two assessment tasks. One involves the recording and analysis of a counselling interview. The other explores family systems.
• Listening and attending skills • Planning • Problem Solving • Evaluating
Topics include: • Review of skills and approaches • The problem management model • Defining strategies • Systemic Interventions • Affective interventions • Cognitive interventions • Behavioural interventions • Existential interventions • The client in crisis • Termination
McLeod, J, (2003). An Introduction to Counselling (3rd ed), Open University Press: Buckingham UK.Egan, G. (2007). The Skilled Helper: A problem-management approach to helping. (8th ed), Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove: California: USA.
