Counselling Skills 1

About this subject

• What you'll learn

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

  1. Identify basic counselling skills.
  2. Apply different models of counselling to match client presentations.
  3. Establish and maintain a collaborative counselling relationship with clients.
  4. Apply basic counselling micro-skills.
  5. Use self-reflective practice to critique your own counselling performance.

• Topics covered

• 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-2026 - Graduate Certificate of Counselling
• TAS-COU-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma in Counselling

Additional requirements

• Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: 3 x 3-hr workshops, 4 x 1-hr Seminars, 10 hrs independent learning weekly.

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.