Professional Ethics and Practice

About this subject

• What you'll learn

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

  1. Demonstrate a clear understanding of the ethical principles involved in counselling practice.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the professional obligations involved in contemporary counselling practice.
  3. Demonstrate ability to handle professionally ethical dilemmas in practice.
  4. Demonstrate a clear understanding of the professional and personal requirements for the maintenance of ethical practice and develop strategies to sustain this.

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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-COU-GCE-2022 - Graduate Certificate of Counselling
• TAS-COU-GDI-2022 - 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:

• TAS-KHA501-Counselling Skills 1

Others

Subject available as postgraduate open access, with the requirement of a completed bachelors level degree or equivalent.

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

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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