Practice skills for human service workers
Leah Zaks
4 hours per week * First semester * Caulfield * Prerequisite: WEL1340
An overview of various forms of counselling intervention including individual, group and systems approaches. Alternative ideological and theoretical frameworks in counselling, for example humanistic, dynamic and behavioural models. Mental illness. Counselling as a role. Responsibility, listening, confronting and empathy. Individual and group processes. Facilitation and exploration of personal and group issues. Counselling using video feedback.
Assessment
Presentation of a videotaped counselling session: 50% * Essay (3000 words): 50%
Prescribed text
Zastrow C The practice of social work Wadsworth, 1992