You will learn about various models, approaches and relational dynamics of counselling with individuals, families, groups and communities. The course facilitates the application of critically-oriented empowerment and practice frameworks within a counselling context.
Drawing on relevant theories, this course will prepare you to work collaboratively and respectfully with service users with dignity as the foundation of practice. You will learn about the importance of co-creating empowering counselling conditions and the centrality of service user autonomy and self-determination in activities such as assessment, goal setting and planning.
You will critically examine and justify your preferences for counselling models and approaches to ensure that your future practice will meet diverse service users’ needs. You will critically analyse your personal values and lived experience to understand their impact on your practice and alignment with ethical frameworks supporting ongoing professional development.
This course is part of the Bachelor of Social Science Mental Health & Wellbeing Major and the Counselling Minor.
At the end of this course, you will be able to recognise the significance of relationality in counselling as well as the personal attributes and skills required to practice as a counsellor, and the areas you need to develop further.
If you are enrolled in this course as a component of your Bachelor Honours Program, your overall mark will contribute to the calculation of the weighted average mark (WAM). See the WAM information web page for more information.