307450 (v.3) Ethics and Self-Awareness 511

Area:

Department of Social Work and Social Policy

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

During the first half of this unit students will consider discourses of ethics and their relationship to reflexive practice and the development of skills for ethical practice. Students will explore a range of contemporary approaches to negotiating ethical issues and how ethics are produced through ongoing historical and cultural discourses. An examination of the beliefs, values and moral assumptions present 'everyday' professional practice and the articulations of 'stories' of practice that challenge and refine decision-making frameworks for acting ethically in time and place. In the second half of the unit an experientially based group facilitated by a skilled professional practitioner will be held over two days to explore individual beliefs and attitudes that can assist counsellors to become aware of any past or present life experiences that may enhance or diminish effective practice.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

090513 Counselling

Funding Cluster:

05 - Behavioural Science, Social Studies

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Pass/Fail

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	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