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CDS1002 Counselling Skills

Semester 2, 2022 External
Units : 1
Faculty or Section : Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences
School or Department : School of Psychology and Wellbeing
Grading basis : Graded
Course fee schedule : /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules

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Overview

The intention for this course is to prepare students for competency in the knowledge and practical application of generic and foundational counselling microskills. These skills are essential for supportive and therapeutic communication within a range of caring professions including counselling, human services, psychology, nursing, and teaching. Students will learn and apply counselling microskills within a structured framework. The course will take students from basic to advanced level counselling skills.

This course introduces students to counselling within the helping professions and key values that counselling operates from. It introduces a framework of helping, including structured stages and tasks. Within this framework, students will learn specific communication and counselling skills that are foundational in the majority of counselling modalities.

This course contains a highly recommended residential school and online asynchronous tutorials. The dates and location of the highly recommended residential school are available from the Residential School Timetable (/handbook/current/resschoolsched.html ). The dates and times of the online tutorials will be available in the course study schedule.

Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course should be able to:

  1. developed a theoretical understanding of the Egan Model and its individual microskills;
  2. appropriately utilise basic counselling and interviewing skills;
  3. display self-awareness, openness to learn, and the receptivity to receive and implement feedback;
  4. to observe, identify, and critically evaluate basic counselling skills;
  5. use and apply ethical and therapeutic values in interviewing.

Topics

Description Weighting(%)
1. Ingredients of successful helping 10.00
2. The helping relationship and its guiding values 10.00
3. Empathic presence: Tuning in and listening 10.00
4. Empathic responding: Working at mutual understanding 10.00
5. Probing and summarising 10.00
6. Client and helper self-challenge 10.00
7. Introduction to the problem management process 10.00
8. Helping clients tell their story 10.00
9. Helping clients develop goals and possibilities 10.00
10. Helping clients plan and implement strategies 10.00

Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed

Egan, G., & Reese, R 2019, Exercises in helping skills: a manual to accompany the skilled helper, 11th edn, Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.
Egan, G., & Reese, R 2019, The skilled helper: a problem-management and opportunity development approach to helping, 11th edn, Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.

Student workload expectations

To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.

Assessment details

Approach Type Description Group
Assessment
Weighting (%) Course learning outcomes
Assignments Written Quiz A1 of 6 No 2 1
Assignments Written Quiz A2 of 6 No 2 1
Assignments Written Quiz A3 of 6 No 2 1
Assignments Practical Demonstration 1 No 30 2,5
Assignments Written Quiz A4 of 6 No 3 1
Assignments Written Quiz A5 of 6 No 3 1
Assignments Practical Demonstration 2 No 45 1,2,4,5
Assignments Practical Demonstration 3 No 10 3
Assignments Written Quiz A6 of 6 No 3 1
Date printed 10 February 2023