Counselling Communication (5258.10)

Required texts

Prescribed text:Prescribed text:

Geldard, D., Geldard, K., Yin Foo, R. (2021). Basic personal counselling: A training manual for counsellors. (9th ed.).  Sydney: Pearson/Prentice-Hall.

Please note that if you search on the library catalogue or databases for counselling references and articles, that there are two spellings to counselling. In Australia and in the UK, it is spelled as ‘counselling" with two ‘l's, whereas in the US it is spelled ‘counseling'. Take this into account in your literature searches.

Some of the counselling journals sources available on the library database are:

Psychotherapy in Australia

Counseling Today

Counseling and Values

Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal

European Journal of psychotherapy, counselling and health

Australian Journal of guidance and counselling

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research

Counseling and Human Development

Counseling Psychologist

International Journal for the advancement of Counselling

Journal of Mental Health Counselling

In Session: Psychotherapy in Practice

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy Networker

Journal of multicultural counseling and development

Journal of Professional Counselling, practice, theory and research

Journal of Family Studies

Australian Social Work

Australian Psychologist

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

All assessment items will be submitted online via the unit Canvas site. 

Special assessment requirements

Assignments are graded. In order to pass this unit, all assignments must be submitted and an overall mark of 50% or more must be reached.

Resubmissions are available only in the first and last units undertaken in an award and are at the discretion of the unit convener.

Late submission of assignments:

Students will receive a reduction of 5 percent per day from the total mark available, for each day that the assignment is late (up to 7 days after which the student will receive zero marks for the assessment item.)

Extensions:

Extensions must be applied for before the due date. 

 Students can apply for an extension to the due date for submission of an assessment item on the grounds of illness or other unavoidable and verifiable personal circumstances. Documentary evidence will be expected in order that an extension be granted.

It should be noted that such documentation will be considered but will not guarantee that the application will be successful. The Unit Convenor will decide whether to grant an extension and the length of the extension.

Academic integrity

Students have a responsibility to uphold University standards on ethical scholarship. Good scholarship involves building on the work of others and use of others' work must be acknowledged with proper attribution made. Cheating, plagiarism, and falsification of data are dishonest practices that contravene academic values. Refer to the University's Student Charter for more information.

To enhance understanding of academic integrity, all students are expected to complete the Academic Integrity Module (AIM) at least once during their course of study. You can access this module within UCLearn (Canvas) through the 'Academic Integrity and Avoiding Plagiarism' link in the Study Help site.

Use of Text-Matching Software

The University of Canberra uses text-matching software to help students and staff reduce plagiarism and improve understanding of academic integrity. The software matches submitted text in student assignments against material from various sources: the internet, published books and journals, and previously submitted student texts.

Moderation of Assignments:

Some assessments will be moderated, as per the School Moderation Procedures. A copy of Moderation Procedures is available on Moodle.

Participation requirements

This is a skills based unit. It is intended that learning in this unit will be interactive and practical. It is presumed therefore that students have made adequate arrangements for            attending all teaching-learning sessions. In particular, attendance at tutorials is essential in this unit as students will not be able to attain and demonstrate in their assessments, the learning outcomes, unless they attend and fully participate in the tutorials.

Absence from more than two tutorials will seriously jeopardise student's ability to achieve and demonstrate the set learning outcomes. Students are also required to inform their   lecturer/tutors of their absence if unavoidable and to seek consultation.

Important: Attendance at tutorials is essential in this course. Students will not be able to attain and demonstrate the required learning outcomes in their assessments unless they attend and fully participate in the tutorials. Experience from past years indicates that students who do not attend tutorials have a real risk of failing the unit.

Required IT skills

You must be able to word process assessments so that they are well presented, search the library data bases for relevant journal articles and access the UCLearn Web site for this unit, and E-Reserve. It is the individual student's responsibility to access appropriate help from the University IT services or the library if they do not have adequate skills.

Work placement, internships or practicums

None

Additional information

If there is any doubt with regard to the requirements of a particular assignment or assessment, the onus for clarifying the issue rests with the student who should contact the unit convener or tutor. Furthermore, it is the responsibility of the student to ensure that they are correctly enrolled in the unit and tutorial and that the tutor and Student administration are provided with their correct contacts details.

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