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Graduate Certificate in Counselling

Effective from 01-JAN-2025 : Code I93

ECU’s Graduate Certificate in Counselling has been developed to evolve with rapidly changing market trends in the counselling industry. This online degree, delivered in accelerated learning mode, provides students with a range of skills and knowledge that can be applied across work settings, client types and cultural groups. Students will be introduced to humanistic, behavioural and cognitive-behavioural therapies and ways of adapting these approaches for delivery across a range of face-to-face, over the phone, and online modalities. Reflecting the need for ethical diversity, the course supports students to appreciate the variety of human experience and the need to deliver flexible, meaningful and effective counselling practices in unique and far-reaching ways. Students can apply for the Masters of Counselling upon successful completion of this course.

Disclaimer

This course information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester. In particular please check the course requirements and the unit and unit set offerings, as these differ according to course delivery location.

Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Communicate effectively to a professional audience.
  2. Critically analyse and apply theoretical knowledge and skills-based practice in the discipline of counselling.
  3. Engage in reflective practice to monitor professional functioning for ongoing development as a counsellor.

Admission requirements

Admission requirement (Band 6)

  • Bachelor degree; or
  • Equivalent prior learning including at least five years relevant professional experience.

English Language requirement (Band 4)

English competency requirements may be satisfied through completion of one of the following:

  • IELTS Academic Overall band minimum score of 6.5 (no individual band less than 6.0);
  • Bachelor degree from a country specified in the Admissions Policy;
  • Successfully completed 0.375 EFTSL of study at postgraduate level or higher at an Australian higher education provider (or equivalent);
  • Where accepted, equivalent prior learning, including at least five years relevant professional experience; or
  • Other tests, courses or programs as defined in the Admissions Policy.

Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) level

This course has been accredited by ECU as an AQF Level 8 Graduate Certificate Award.

Course Duration

  • Students are only able to complete one unit at a time (over 6 weeks) due to the accelerated, online mode of delivery

Course Delivery

  • Online: Part Time, Full Time

Non standard timetable requirements

Students undertake one unit at a time in the fully online, accelerated delivery mode (6 weeks)

Course Coordinator

Mrs Georgina AKERS

Course Structure

Unit Code Unit Title Credit Points
COU6501Foundations of Counselling Practice20
COU6502Theories and Techniques in Counselling20
COU6503The Role of the Counsellor20

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

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