Overview

Central theme: introduction to counselling theory, interventions and research. Themes to be covered include theories of counselling, evaluation of counselling, research designs and interventions, ethical decision making in counselling psychology.

Offerings

S2-01-CLAYTON-ON-CAMPUS
S2-01-MALAYSIA-ON-CAMPUS

Requisites

Contacts

Chief Examiner(s)

Dr Melinda Jackson

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Swati Mujumdar
Dr Yap Yee Aun

Notes

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Scheduled teaching activities and/or workload information are subject to change in response to COVID-19, please check your Unit timetable and Unit Moodle site for more details.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you should be able to:
1.

Identify a variety of theoretical approaches to counselling including individual, group and systems approaches;

2.

Describe techniques used by various theoretical approaches to counselling;

3.

Recognise the influence of personal values and belief systems to the counselling process;

4.

Identify ethical issues and ethical decision making in counselling; and

5.

Conduct research in counselling psychology.

Assessment

1 - Mock Counselling and Self Reflection Task (10 minute video and 999 words)
2 - Essay (2,000 words) (35%)
3 - Examination (2 hours) (35%)

Scheduled and non-scheduled teaching activities

Lectures
Tutorials

Workload requirements

Workload

Learning resources

Required resources