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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

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

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Area: Department of Social Work
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
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.
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

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