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Rehabilitation Counselling
Postgraduate | TAS-KHA602 | 2021
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
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Rehabilitation Counselling
About this subject
Upon 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
- Rehabilitation processes
- Assessment and treatment
- Vocational and medical rehabilitation counselling
- Rehabilitation counselling skills
- Rehabilitation context and settings
This subject introduces the theory and practice required when working in rehabilitation counselling. Topics covered include case management, within the context of vocational and medical rehabilitation. Organisational structures and the individual experience are examined. Issues related to work injury, brain injury, and intellectual disability are considered with emphasis on assessment of limitations and community integration. Rehabilitation issues related to recovery from physical illness, coping with terminal illness for the individual and the family, and adjustment to restrictions caused by physical changes are examined together with coping with and recovery from psychiatric illness. 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 in a rehabilitation setting.
- Weekly Quizzes (20%)
- Exam (40%)
- Problem Solving Paper (40%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
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
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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