Course overview
Counselling Skills 1 introduces students to the fundamental elements of counselling.
In addition to understanding the theoretical perspectives that underpin core counselling practice, students will develop a range of discrete skills including: attending, observing, listening, responding accurately and empathically to clients, and identifying inappropriate and unhelpful practices.
Students will be given maximum opportunity to develop their counselling skills in a structured and supportive environment.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of core counselling skills and concepts consistent with a Person-Centred approach
- Competently use the skills of attending, observing, listening, and responding appropriately during a counsellor-client consultation
- Critically reflect upon personal values and counsellor attributes
- Discriminate and rate the different levels of effective and ineffective responses accurately, and discern unhelpful or inappropriate counselling behaviours
- Manage a genuine client issue and provide a series of effective responses (in accordance with the criteria to be detailed in class)
- Critique and evaluate one's own counselling responses and set goals for improvement.
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 21969
Section TU01
Size 10
Available 10
Class number 21968
Section TU02
Size 10
Available 10
Class number 21967
Section TU03
Size 10
Available 10
Class number 21966
Section TU04
Size 10
Available 10
Class number 21965
Section TU05
Size 10
Available 10
Class number 21964
Section TU06
Size 10
Available 10
Class number 21963
Section TU07
Size 10
Available 10
Class number 28091
Section WS01
Size 70
Available 70
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