Counselling Skills 1
PostgraduateTAS-KHA5012026
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 15 Feb 2026
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Price from
- $2,919
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Counselling Skills 1
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Identify basic counselling skills.
- Apply different models of counselling to match client presentations.
- Establish and maintain a collaborative counselling relationship with clients.
- Apply basic counselling micro-skills.
- Use self-reflective practice to critique your own counselling performance.
- Module 1: The Counselling Process
- Module 2: Counselling Micro-skills - Active Listening and Reflection
- Module 3: Counselling Micro-skills - Empathy
- Module 4: Questions and the Art of Probing
- Module 5: Counselling Micro-skills – Observation and Interpretation
- Module 6: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Counselling
- Module 7: Advanced Level Empathy
- Module 8: Mental Health and Counselling
- Module 9: Counselling and the Process of Change
- Module 10: Models of Counselling 1
- Module 11: Models of Counselling 2
- Module 12: Counselling - Professional Development, Values and Ethics
- Module 13: Reflection, Revision
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.
- Practice Skills Log Sheet (0%)
- Skills Demonstration (40%)
- Self-Evaluation (25%)
- Written Assignment (35%)
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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-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.
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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