Professional Ethics and Practice
PostgraduateTAS-KHA5052023
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Professional Ethics and Practice
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the ethical principles involved in counselling practice.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the professional obligations involved in contemporary counselling practice.
- Demonstrate ability to handle professionally ethical dilemmas in practice.
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the professional and personal requirements for the maintenance of ethical practice and develop strategies to sustain this.
- Refer to Mylo for study topics
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 (50%)
- Online Participation and Report (10%)
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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-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:
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
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 Diploma in Counselling
PostgraduateTAS-COU-GDI
Graduate Certificate of Counselling
PostgraduateTAS-COU-GCE