| Semester 2, 2023 External | |
| Units : | 1 |
| School or Department : | School of Psychology and Wellbeing |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
Staffing
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Overview
The intention of 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:
- develop a theoretical understanding of the Egan Model and its individual microskills;
- appropriately utilise basic counselling and interviewing skills;
- display self-awareness, openness to learn, and the receptivity to receive and implement feedback;
- to observe, identify, and critically evaluate basic counselling skills;
- 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
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
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) | Course learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quiz A1 of 6 | No | 2 | 1 |
| Quiz A2 of 6 | No | 2 | 1 |
| Quiz A3 of 6 | No | 2 | 1 |
| Demonstration 1 | No | 30 | 2,5 |
| Quiz A4 of 6 | No | 3 | 1 |
| Quiz A5 of 6 | No | 3 | 1 |
| Demonstration 2 | No | 45 | 1,2,4,5 |
| Demonstration 3 | No | 10 | 3 |
| Quiz A6 of 6 | No | 3 | 1 |