Counselling Skills and Models PG (7743.5)

Please note these are the 2024 details for this unit
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Counselling Skills and Models PG
Available teaching periods Delivery mode Location
View teaching periods On-campus
 Bruce, Canberra
EFTSL Credit points Faculty
0.125 3 Faculty Of Health
Discipline Study level HECS Bands
Counselling Post Graduate Level Band 2 2021 (Commenced Before 1 Jan 2021)
Band 2 2021 (Prof Pathway Social Work- After 1 Jan 2021)
Band 4 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan 2021)
This unit provides students with an opportunity to further develop their counselling skills in an interactive and supportive learning environment with feedback from staff and other students. The interrelationships between counselling theories and models and skills are explored. The unit will also focus on the research on counselling outcomes and effective change processes. Experiential exercises and use of video equipment to review practice are integrated within the unit.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate competence in a range of counselling skills, including: a. assessment, b. collaborative goal setting, c. reflective listening, d. empathy, e. range of change interventions and f. evaluation and termination of the counselling relationship; and
2. Critically appraise their own and other students' counselling practice and articulate the theory base for the use of interventions.


Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development


Prerequisites

This unit is only available to students in the Graduate Diploma in Counselling, Master of Counselling or Master of Occupational Therapy.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.
Availability for enrolment in 2027 is subject to change and may not be confirmed until closer to the teaching start date.
Year Location Teaching period Teaching start date Delivery mode Unit convener
2026 Bruce, Canberra Semester 2 10 August 2026 On-campus Dr Rana Tayara
2027 Bruce, Canberra Semester 2 09 August 2027 On-campus Dr Rana Tayara
Not available

Required texts

Prescribed Textbook

Geldard, D., Geldard, K. & Yin Foo, R. (2022). Basic personal counselling: A training manual for counsellors. (9th ed.).  Cengage Learning.

Note that the 8th and 10th editions are also available from the library and contain largely the same material.

Recommended Reading

Crago, H., & Gardner, P. (2012). A safe place for change: Skills and capacities for counselling and therapy.  IP Communications.

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

Artificial intelligence

Students are not permitted to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in assessments for this unit, except for Studiosity Writing Feedback Plus.

GenAI may only be used in authorised ways when completing assessments at UC. This means that GenAI can only be used for an assessment when:

  1. the Unit Convener has authorised GenAI use for that assessment
  2. the student uses GenAI in the way that the assessment instructions allow
  3. the student fully acknowledges their use of GenAI, with proper citations, references and a GenAI Acknowledgement Statement in line with the assessment instructions.

Where the assessment instructions do not specifically state that GenAI may be used and how, then its use is not permitted for that assessment. Students must still provide the required GenAI Acknowledgement Statement to indicate whether GenAI has or has not been used in the preparation of the assessment. If unsure, students should seek advice from the Unit Convener.

The GenAI for Students Library Guide provides further information, including how to reference GenAI Links to an external site..

Special assessment requirements

It is the student's responsibility to upload the correct and corresponding draft or assessment item to the correct submission section. Assignments must be submitted in a format accessible to the assessor(s), as stated on the relevant canvas site. If the unit convener and/or tutor are unable to access a submission, a standard late penalty may be applied per day until the assignment is made accessible.

Resubmissions are not available in this unit.

Supplementary assessment

Supplementary assessments are not available in this unit

                      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

              

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the Academic Integrity Module annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and University of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Participation requirements

This is a skills based unit. It is intended that learning in this unit will be interactive and practical. Students must make adequate arrangements for attending all sessions. In particular, attendance at tutorials is essential in this unit as students will not be able to attain and demonstrate the learning outcomes in their assessments unless they attend and fully participate. 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 produce written assignments that are well presented, search the library databases for relevant journal articles, and access the UCLearn site for this unit. 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. Students will need to familiarise themselves with and have appropriate access to video recording hardware and software that is compatible and accessible for video-recorded assignment requirements and uploading to UCLearn.

In-unit costs

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Work placement, internships or practicums

None

Additional information

APA7 referencing and formatting is required in this unit. Further information about referencing can be found here: APA 7th ed. - UC Referencing Guide - UC Library Guides at University of Canberra (libguides.com)