Counselling Placement and Supervision PG (7748.6)

Please note these are the 2023 details for this unit
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Counselling Placement and Supervision PG
Available teaching periods Delivery mode Location
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EFTSL Credit points Faculty
0.25 6 Faculty Of Health
Discipline Study level HECS Bands
Discipline Of 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)
Students will undertake a supervised counselling placement in an approved agency, and attend field seminars on professional issues and participate in small group supervision of their counselling practice on campus.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Apply their theoretical knowledge and counselling skills to practice with clients in a counselling agency;
2. Analyse the influence of organisational and social contexts on counselling practice;
3. Analyse and critique their use of counselling skills and theoretical interventions;
4. Demonstrate their capacity to participate in small group supervision of their practice; and
5. Demonstrate ethical decision making about their counselling practice.


Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
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 - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware


Prerequisites

7743 Counselling Skills and Models PG AND 7745 Ethical Frameworks for Counselling PG AND 7781 Introduction to Professional Supervision PG

Corequisites

Admission to the Graduate Diploma in Counselling OR Master of Counselling OR Permission of the Course Convener.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.
Year Location Teaching period Teaching start date Delivery mode Unit convener
Not available

Required texts

4a        Lists of required texts/readings

  Cleak, H. & Wilson, J. (2019). Making the most of field placement (4th ed.). Cengage.                                                                                     

  Creaner, M. (2014). Getting the best out of supervision in counselling and psychotherapy: A guide for the supervisee. Sage.                                                       


There will be agency policies and procedures and other policy documents and resources relevant to the client populations that you will need to access and become familiar with, as part of the orientation to placement. You will need to undertake research specific to your placement agency for assessments.

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

This is an ungraded unit and all assignments in this unit will be marked pass/fail.

In order to pass this unit, all assignments must be submitted and each receive a pass mark.

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

The Graduate Diploma and Master of Counselling have been designed to meet the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) accreditation requirements, which include 200 hours face to face learning. This translates to at least an 80% attendance in each unit. It is expected that students will attend all sessions unless prevented by illness or other unforeseen situations. In these circumstances students should notify the lecturer in advance where possible.  In order to meet the required professional and educational standards students must discuss catchup work with the lecturer when two sessions have been missed. 

The Friday workshop is a crucial session. It sets up the group, agreements/rules and is unable to be made up in any other replacement work. Please do not enrol if you cannot attend this half day workshop and discuss with Unit Convenor/Course convenor.

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 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.

Work placement, internships or practicums

This unit involves  clinical placement  and therefore, additional student responsibilities are required. Work-place learning requires strict adherence to professional practice principles and ethics. Client confidentiality must always be maintained, including for assessment items such as reports or essays. The professional nature of this unit also requires 100% participation at all learning activities (workshop, supervision groups as scheduled – see section 3) for the successful completion of this unit (also see section 6c). If attendance requirements cannot be satisfied (e.g. timetable clash), it is recommended that you meet with your Course Convener to schedule this unit for a future semester.

Please note students are required to undergo a Working with Vulnerable People (WWVP) background check and Police Check to undertake a placement for this unit.

Note that the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act only applies to the ACT. For students undertaking placements in other states or territories, it may be that a Police Check or a Working with Children Check is required.

Additional information

APA referencing is required in this unit. You will find some important information about referencing on the following website:

http://canberra.libguides.com/content.php?pid=238252&sid=1966106