Professional Ethics and Practice
PostgraduateTAS-KHA5052025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Professional Ethics and Practice
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Apply ethical principles and professional obligations involved in contemporary counselling practice.
- Integrate relevant ethical codes, guidelines and/or principles to inform evidence-based opinions and decision-making processes to address professionally relevant ethical dilemmas.
- Reflect on the professional and personal requirements for the maintenance of ethical practice and develop strategies to sustain this.
- Module 1: Introduction and orientation
- Module 2: Ethical foundations
- Module 3: Your values, your ethics
- Module 4: Making ethical decisions
- Module 5: Privacy and confidentiality; confidentiality with minors
- Module 6: Duty to warn/protect
- Module 7: Boundaries and multiple relationships
- Module 8: Keeping records, writing reports
- Module 9: Professional competence and ethical practice
- Module 10: Professional self-care
- Module 11: Ethical self as instrument
- Module 12: Culture, diversity, sensitivity
- Module 13: Applied ethical practice and review
In this subject participants develop and clarify their awareness and thinking around ethical and practice dilemmas within professional counselling practice. Emphasis will be placed on the development of personal standards of practice and on the acquisition and application of decision-making processes. Contemporary counselling practice obligations and issues such as the demands of maintaining competence and quality assurance; working as a counsellor within diverse settings and with diverse populations and the provision of consultancy will be addressed. Ethical thinking, codes of practice for counsellors and rehabilitation counsellors and approaches to applying these codes to actual practice dilemmas will be explored, with particular attention paid to current and developing areas of ethical challenge.
- Ethics Presentation (40%)
- Topic Paper (40%)
- Discussion posts (online) (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 enrol in the following subject(s) to study at the same time or prior to this subject:
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: 4 x 2-hour Online discussions (synchronous) per semester; Online module content (asynchronous) 4hrs weekly; Independent study 2hrs weekly; 3 x 3 hour mandatory online workshops per semester
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Student feedback
8 student respondents between 27 May - 17 June 2024.
87%of students felt the study load was manageable
87%of students felt this subject helped them gain relevant skills
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