Online Courses Handbook 2003

301663 (v.2) Psychology Counselling 421 - Introduction to Counselling

Area:	School of Psychology
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	25.0
Workshop:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Seminar:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
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 acquistion of basic helping and interpersonal communication skills that underpin the majority of the main theoretical systems.