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2023 unit information
HPY210
Students will on average spend 150 hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
1 hour online self-paced interactive learning each week will provide students with the theoretical background for practical counselling skills taught in seminars. Weekly seminars will support students to develop applied counselling skills. These seminars will focus on demonstrating and practising counselling activities in dyads and triads and preparing students for the assessments.
1 x 2 hour seminar (campus) per week with compulsory attendance requirement.
1 x 2 hour seminar (online) per week with compulsory attendance requirement.
Campus students will be required to attend, in-person, at least 8 of the 10 two hour weekly seminars to obtain a Pass or above in the unit. Online students will be able to meet this requirement through online attendance.
Designed to help make you work-ready, students in this unit will learn about the key theories of counselling, including psychodynamic, existential-humanistic, cognitive, and behavioural approaches. Students will critically appraise and compare the origin of these theories, their proposed mechanisms of change, and the specific intervention techniques aligned with each theory. The unit also has a strong focus on practical counselling skills, which are common across all approaches. Students will further develop their counselling micro-skills, their sensitivity to culturally diverse client populations, and will be introduced to more complex skills, including case formulation. The unit also includes a self-reflective element and will provide an opportunity for students to explore their own emerging counselling approach and orientation. We would recommend this unit to anyone considering client work in a community or mental health setting.
This unit builds upon the foundational knowledge obtained in the pre-requisite unit HPY210 Applied Counselling Skills (Introductory) (this unit used to be called Coaching and Counselling for Behaviour Change).
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HPY306 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period.
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