307449 (v.1) Counselling Theory and Practice (1) 512

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:	Students will be introduced to theories and approaches of counselling including psychodynamic, person-centred and cognitive behavioural, examining their contemporary applications. They will then engage with therapeutic approaches informed by recent social theories, especially solution-focused brief therapy, possibility therapy and narrative therapy. Throughout this unit students will be encouraged and challenged to explore their understandings of the idea of the self, how they make sense of personal experience, and how they might apply various theories in counselling 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:	090501 Social Work
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Categorised *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
2008	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