Adjustment To Change
PostgraduateTAS-KHA5072025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 21 July 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Adjustment To Change
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Identify and articulate the challenges of coping with life events and the diversity and variability of experiences of change, loss, grief, trauma and the meanings attached to them
- Demonstrate an understanding of key theories related to change, loss, grief or trauma
- Respond constructively to the change experiences of others through the application of the understandings gained in Learning Outcomes 1 and 2
- Identify and articulate key themes in the understanding of the nature of trauma and of trauma responses and its assessment
- Assess and intervene appropriately in the aftermath of the experience of trauma
- Negotiating Change
- Dealing with Crisis
- Difficulties with Adjustment
- Loss and Grief
- Grief Reactions
- Death and Dying
- Trauma
- Trauma Reactions
- Trauma and Development
- Trauma Interventions
- Complex Trauma and PTSD
- Growth and Resilience
This subject explores current thinking and strategies around dealing with issues of adjustment to change. That change includes changes involving loss, grief and trauma. Death and bereavement will be addressed including dealing with grief as a natural process and with more complicated grief. Non-death losses are also addressed such as divorce, unemployment, disability, chronic illness, infertility, and aging. The second half of the subject will also look at the serious change that trauma can bring - common trauma responses, post-traumatic stress, large scale trauma such as natural disasters, and some models for effective treatment of trauma.
- Change Case Scenario (40%)
- Trauma Case Scenario (40%)
- Discussion Board Participation (20%)
- Practice Skills Log Sheet (0%)
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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 currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:
Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: 2 x 3-hr online workshops per semester, 3 hours self-directed learning per week.
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.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate of Counselling
PostgraduateTAS-COU-GCE
Graduate Diploma in Counselling
PostgraduateTAS-COU-GDI