EDEM673-10W (C) Whole Year 2010

Counselling Practicum (FT)

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2010
End Date: Sunday, 14 November 2010
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 7 March 2010
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 5 September 2010

Description

This course involves 400 hours of approved, supervised experience in counselling and assignments related to that experience completed over one year.

MEd contact Vicki Badis at the College of Education Postgraduate Office 3642987 ext 4877
postgraduate@education.canterbury.ac.nz

Learning Outcomes

1. To apply solution-focussed skills in a professional counselling setting.
2. To refine a personal theory of counselling.
3. To learn to operate as part of a professonal counselling team.
4. To incorporate feedback from supervision into counselling practice.

Prerequisites

(1) Subject to approval of the Coordinator of Counsellor Education; (2) EDUC658 or EDEM671, EDUC661 or EDEM664, EDUC662 or EDEM672.

Restrictions

EDUC663

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Neil Rodgers

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
EDEM673 First Supervision Report 16 Apr 2010 30% First Supervision Report EDEM673
EDEM673 Second Supervision Report 03 Sep 2010 45% Second Supervision Report EDEM673
EDEM673 A summary of your Counselling Activities (two parts). 29 Oct 2010 25% A summary of your Counselling Activities


General Notes on the Assessment of Work in EDEM673:
For each assignment, assessment will include the following:
(a) Legibility and writing style, e.g. accuracy of punctuation; directness and clarity of expression; structure of sentences and paragraphs; coherence of ideas; depth of understanding; completeness of report/case study.  More than five mistakes per page can be considered excessive.
(b) Organisation and presentation, e.g., clear headings, full and consistent referencing (where relevant).
(c) All recordings (video or audio) must be clearly audible.

Course links

Basic requirements for EDEM 673 (a) Satisfactory assignments postmarked by the due dates: The third Friday of April, the first Friday of September and the last Friday of October. (b) Evidence of satisfactory professional supervision (at least 15 sessions); (c) 450 hours of approved counselling experience (itemised-see p.7) plus 50 hours of professional development (see page 8). At least 280 of the 450 hours must be actual face-to-face counselling hours with individuals, families, couples, groups; 170 hours may include activities listed as non face-to-face on p. 7; the remaining 50 hours will meet the criteria for professional development/ongoing training (see p.7 and p.8). (d) A satisfactory report from your administrative supervisor on your counselling and related tasks. (We have a form for this purpose that we post to your supervisor in September.) Please note that you may begin any of the assignments after 22 November of the year in which you complete EDUC 662 and 658. You may submit any of the assignments at an earlier date. You do not have to wait until the required date to submit any particular assignment. Our assessment of material submitted early, however, will coincide with the due dates.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,364.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Health Sciences .

All EDEM673 Occurrences

  • EDEM673-10W (C) Whole Year 2010