WELF 7032 Counselling Skills for the Allied Professions

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Credit Points 10

Legacy Code 102806

Coordinator Ireni Farag Opens in new window

Description This subject introduces postgraduate students from allied professions to the major theoretical frameworks and foundational practices of counselling. An in-depth exploration of the embodied and situated experience of the trainee practitioner will be central to learning how to attend to and support others. Students will engage in an ongoing critical consideration of how discourses and practices of selfhood, social justice, power, colonisation, intersectionality, diversity and place shape the subjects of therapy and influence the therapeutic relationship. These intersubjective and scholarly enquiries will inform a scaffolded, intensive practice of microskills. (Legacy code 102806)

School Social Sciences

Discipline Counselling

Student Contribution Band HECS Band 4 10cp

Level Postgraduate Coursework Level 7 subject

Incompatible Subjects WELF 7009 - Foundations of Psychotherapy and Counselling 1 WELF 7004 - Counselling 1

Restrictions

Students must be enrolled in program 4595 - Master of Art Therapy or students must be enrolled in another postgraduate program in Social Sciences, such as Social and Community work, Health, Arts in Health Education or Bachelor of Research Studies.

Assessment

The following table summarises the standard assessment tasks for this subject. Please note this is a guide only. Assessment tasks are regularly updated, where there is a difference your Learning Guide takes precedence.

Type Length Percent Threshold Individual/Group Task
Applied Project 20 minute edited video recording plus 1,000 words (not including transcript) 40 Y Individual
Critical Review 1, 000 words 35 N Individual
Presentation Ongoing in-class presentation of Log Book reflections 25 N Individual

Prescribed Texts

  • Geldard, D. Geldard, K. & Yin Foo, R. (2016). Basic personal counselling. 8th Ed. Australia: Cengage Learning

Teaching Periods