EDUC461-06W (U) Whole Year 2006 (University Campus)

Counselling and Psychology: Theories and Skills

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2006
End Date: Sunday, 12 November 2006
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 5 March 2006
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 3 September 2006

Description

Studies of counselling and psychological theories and their implication for practice. Practice in the skills of a problem-management model of helping.

This full year course aims to have students learn and practice some introductory helping skills while they are learning about several major theories of counselling and psychotherapy.  Students will learn the stages and skills of a problem-solving model of helping and the essentials of good practice such as preparation for the first contact and recognition of the client’s perspective, self evaluation skills and specific helping skills (interviewing, features of and cautions for evidential interviewing, working therapeutically, working with systems, working with people of different ages and cultures). There will be an emphasis on experiential learning such as role play and self-evaluation of a video.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of School.

Lecturer

Judi Miller

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Library exercise 15%
Theory write-up 40%
Video analysis 45%

Course links

Library portal

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $937.00

* 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 Educational Studies and Leadership .

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