Counselling Skills 1

• • Introduction
  • The counselling process
  • Counselling micro-skills –active listening and reflection
  • Counselling micro-skills -empathy
  • Questions and the art of probing
  • Counselling micro-skills–observation and interpretation
  • Advanced level empathy
  • Culturally and linguistically diverse counselling
  • Mental health and counselling
  • Counselling and the process of change
  • Models of counselling 1
  • Models of counselling 2
  • Counselling -professional development, values and ethics

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• TAS-COU-GCE-2022
• TAS-CEP-GCE-2022
• TAS-CHP-GCE-2022
• TAS-COU-GDI-2022

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

On successfully completing this subject, students will be able to use practical skills for more effective interpersonal communication, as well as basic counselling skills. This subject examines styles of counselling with integration of theories of counselling with its practice. The subject teaches both basic skills in counselling and more advanced skills necessary in more complex counselling situations. Multicultural counselling will be addressed.

• Skill Demonstration (50%)
• Self-Evaluation (20%)
• Written Assignment (30%)