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.