Counselling Skills 2

About this subject

• What you'll learn

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

  1. Apply basic and advanced counselling skills in a professional manner.
  2. Engage with a variety of client presentations and tailor your approach to the specific client’s needs.
  3. Discuss how culture may affect communication and describe the skills and attitudes required of a culturally sensitive counsellor.
  4. Justify therapeutic decision making, supporting professional decisions with evidence from the research literature.
  5. Reflect on professional skills development and constructively critique your own counselling performance.

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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-CEP-GCE-2023 - Graduate Certificate in Counselling for Education Professionals
• TAS-CHP-GCE-2023 - Graduate Certificate in Counselling for Health Professionals
• TAS-COU-GDI-2023 - Graduate Diploma in Counselling
• TAS-COU-GCE-2023 - Graduate Certificate of 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 - 3 x 3 hour synchronous online workshops; 6 x 1 hour synchronous online discussions; asynchronous engagement in online learning 7 -9 hours 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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