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

Area:

School of Psychology

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

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Workshop:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Seminar:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

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 consultationprocesses 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.

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Field of Education:

090513 Counselling

Funding Cluster:

05 - Behavioural Science, Social Studies

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

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

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

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