Counselling and Interventions

Overview of the unit

Unit code: PSY80115
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 8 hours of study per week

About this unit

This unit provides an introduction to counselling psychology. Students receive instruction in counselling theory, process, and research, and facilitative and influencing communication skills. The assessments and online activities provide opportunities for students to apply counselling theory to the therapeutic process, including online therapy applications, and to demonstrate their skills in a video-recorded interview.

Major therapeutic approaches, including psychoanalytic, existential, person-centred, behavioural, cognitive, family and solution-focused therapy, will be reviewed as will the research and ethical issues involved in counselling.

Content

Major therapeutic approaches to counselling: behavioural, cognitive, systemic, client-centred
Ethical and research issues
Counselling microskills and their application in different modalities
Understanding client diversity, and working with persons from different cultural backgrounds, including Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander persons.
Managing clients through treatment
Risk assessment and client crisis management