Rehabilitation Counselling
PostgraduateTAS-KHA6022025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 21 July 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Rehabilitation Counselling
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Practice the skills necessary to function as a vocational rehabilitation counsellor, and in relation to medical rehabilitation and health counselling.
- Demonstrate understanding of vocational rehabilitation from a workers compensation, motor vehicle and life insurance perspective.
- Practice skills in assessing clients for return to work and redeployment activities (assessments including initial needs, workplace safety, and vocational and transferable skills).
- Demonstrate an understanding of treatment and assessment issues related to illness and disability.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the issues related to rehabilitation and recovery from physical and psychiatric illness.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the consequences of reduction of functioning following disability and illness.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the skills required when working in a health care setting.
- Introduction to Vocational Rehabilitation
- Working in Vocational Rehabilitation and Workers Compensation
- Introduction to the Medical Setting
- Motivational Interviewing in the Medical Setting
- Introduction to the Legal Setting
- Offender Rehabilitation and Adjustment to Incarceration
- Psychological Injury
- Intellectual Disability, Cognitive Decline and Acquired Brain Injury
- Chronic Illness and Pain Management
- Victims of Crime
- Group Rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation Counselling and Self-Care
This subject provides an introduction to the theory and practice as a consultant working in rehabilitation counselling. Topics covered include case management, as well as vocational, medical and forensic rehabilitation. Organisational structures and the individual experience are examined. The acquisition of information and practical skills is emphasised, providing competencies for students to enhance their overall learning, with a view to securing appropriate and relevant employment.
- Weekly Discussion Board Participation (20%)
- Case Study (choice of vocational, medical or forensic rehabilitation) (40%)
- Skills Demonstration (40%)
- 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-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma in Counselling
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:
Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: 2 x 3-hr online workshops per semester; 3 x 1-hr live sessions (online) per semester; 3 hours 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 Diploma in Counselling
PostgraduateTAS-COU-GDI