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Psychoeducation and counselling often take place in groups. The group context provides unique potential and power as a medium for change. Facilitating groups such as these requires an understanding of the basic issues and concepts of group process, as well as the leadership skills to apply these concepts effectively in group work. The knowledge and skills acquired in this course are designed to address areas of competence specified in the professional accreditation standards for postgraduate counselling training and will be relevant to similar standards in most allied health disciplines.

This course contains a mandatory four-day residential school and 10 hours of mandatory online synchronous tutorials.

Successful psychoeducational, counselling and supervision groups are led by facilitators who have developed competencies in planning, listening, observing, and responding to group dynamics and process, and leading interventions. This course equips students with an understanding of the theoretical bases for group work and provides opportunity for students to learn about the process of different types of groups from beginning to end. In the first group of topics, the focus is on understanding the theory of group work, understanding the role of the group leader/s, and exploring ethical and legal issues in group counselling. The focus then shifts to understanding the group process. Finally, the course focuses on the application of group work in various settings.

This course contains a mandatory four-day residential school (30 hours) and 10 hours of mandatory online synchronous workshops, as per the program accreditation agreement between UniSQ and Counselling accreditation bodies. Non-compliance with this attendance requirement will result in the student not being able to pass the course.