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Courses Handbook 2015

This handbook contains information on courses and components (majors, minors, streams and units) at Curtin in 2015.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2014.

PSYC4009 (v.1) Introduction to Counselling

Area: School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 311598 (v.1) Introduction to Counselling 421 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s):     Admission into 167999 (v.7) Bachelor of Psychology or any previous version
    OR
    Admission into B-PSYCH (v.1) Bachelor of Psychology or any previous version
AND
    314422 (v.1) Advanced Psychological Science 310 or any previous version
    OR
    PSYC3005 (v.1) Advanced Psychological Science Qualitative Methods or any previous version
AND
    311593 (v.1) Cognition 323 or any previous version
    OR
    BIOL3005 (v.1) Cognition or any previous version
AND
    311594 (v.1) Abnormal Psychology 327 or any previous version
    OR
    PSYT3000 (v.1) Abnormal Psychology or any previous version
AND
    311590 (v.1) Individual Differences 311 or any previous version
    OR
    PSYC3002 (v.1) Individual Differences or any previous version
AND
    12963 (v.3) Indigenous and Cross Cultural Psychology 328 or any previous version
    OR
    PSYC3000 (v.1) Indigenous and Cross Cultural Psychology or any previous version
AND
    310848 (v.3) Work, Family and Community 336 or any previous version
    OR
    PSYC3001 (v.1) Work, Family and Community or any previous version
AND
    311595 (v.1) Advanced Psychological Science 320 or any previous version
    OR
    PSYC3004 (v.1) Advanced Psychological Science Mixed Methods or any previous version
AND
    311592 (v.1) Adult Developmental Psychology 323 or any previous version
    OR
    PSYC3003 (v.1) Adult Developmental Psychology or any previous version
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: Introduction to a range of psychological interventions. The nature of these psychological interventions is investigated in the social and historical context. A second aim is to establish the basic counselling skills involved in interview and consultation processes in a conceptual framework that allows flexibility and understanding of the helping and change processes and the acquisition of basic helping and interpersonal communication skills that underpin the majority of the main theoretical systems.
Field of Education: 090701 Psychology
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External


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