Postgraduate - UnitEDF6530 - Introduction to counselling across the lifespan

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Education
Offered	Not offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)	Dr Jennifer Barnes

Synopsis

This unit introduces students to a range of issues and approaches to counselling across the lifespan. Students identify psychological issues that arise in the course of normal lifespan development, explore practice frameworks including historical background and contemporary ideas, are introduced to the process of therapy, learn to distinguish between preventative and remedial interventions, explore multicultural counselling, ethics in counselling and learn how to apply a variety of strategies to counselling interventions across the lifespan.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

understand the theory and frameworks of the major schools of counselling and psychotherapy
relate appropriate therapeutic approaches and a range of strategies to the corresponding developmental stage focusing on child/adolescent, adult and the aged
explore alternate modes of delivery including online and telephone counselling
understand the qualities and skills needed to be an effective counsellor and explore the ethical principles and practices related to counselling.

Assessment

Group case study analysis 1 (2400 words, 30%)
Individual case study analysis 2 (5600 words, 70%)

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 24 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

3 hours of lectures per week

(b.) Contact hours for off-campus students:

3 hours per week private study time involving activities such as electronic reference searching completion of practical exercises, reading and assignment preparation

(c.) Requirements for offshore Kaplan-based students:

intensive teaching sessions requiring student engagement prior to, during and after sessions

(d.) Additional requirements (all students):

21 hours of independent study per week including activities such as electronic reference searching, completion of practical exercises, reading and assignment preparation

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Brett Furlonger