WELF 7032 Counselling Skills for the Allied Professions
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 |
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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