Professional Ethics and Practice

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:

  1. Apply ethical principles and professional obligations involved in contemporary counselling practice.
  2. Integrate relevant ethical codes, guidelines and/or principles to inform evidence-based opinions and decision-making processes to address professionally relevant ethical dilemmas.
  3. Reflect on the professional and personal requirements for the maintenance of ethical practice and develop strategies to sustain this.

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• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About University of Tasmania

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• TAS-COU-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate of Counselling
• TAS-COU-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma in Counselling

Prior study

You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or enrol in the following subject(s) to study at the same time or prior to this subject:

• TAS-KHA501-Counselling Skills 1

Additional requirements

• Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: 4 x 2-hour Online discussions (synchronous) per semester Online module content (asynchronous) 4hrs weekly Independent study 2hrs weekly 3 x 3 hour mandatory online workshops per semester

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.