School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit 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.

Please note that there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Addiction Studies: Counselling Skills 1
  • Unit Code

    ADS3252
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Stephen Jason BRIGHT

Description

In this unit, students learn and apply counselling skills. These counselling skills are developed through a scaffolded learning approach in which the content of seminars follows the four processes of motivational interviewing: engaging, focusing, evoking and planning. In doing so students learn how to apply counselling skills that are underpinned by the philosophy of motivational interviewing to reduce harm from alcohol and other drugs. Students are required to engage in ongoing reflective practice to increase personal insight into the role of their own interpersonal processes when working with clients. Students learn how to use models of psychopathology to develop case formulations.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed ADS2253.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ADS5303.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate skills in motivational interviewing to reduce alcohol- and other drug-related harm among diverse populations.
  2. Apply models of psychopathology to develop evidence-based formulations for clients experiencing alcohol or other drug-related problems.
  3. Reflect upon personal emotional reactions during counselling to improve professional practice.

Unit Content

  1. Counselling Micro-Skills.
  2. Motivational interviewing.
  3. Transference and counter-transference.
  4. Assessment and case formulation skills.
  5. Significance of clinical supervision.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars involve experiential learning that consolidates the digital learning materials students are required to access prior to attending the seminar. Students engage in skills-based learning through role plays in which all students are required to participate. They are provided with ongoing real-time feedback in class by the lecturer and then feedback through completing a video demonstration of their counselling skills. Students are required to engage in ongoing reflective practice to increase personal insight into the role of their own interpersonal processes when working with clients. These reflections involve applying models of psychopathology to enhance students’ ability to engage in case formulation. Students develop detailed case formulations that meets industry standards.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Performance ^Counselling skills role play45%
ReportCase formulation for alcohol and other drug addiction40%
Reflective PracticeCounselling skills personal reflection15%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit 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.

  • Unit Title

    Addiction Studies: Counselling Skills 1
  • Unit Code

    ADS3252
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Stephen Jason BRIGHT

Description

In this unit, students learn and apply counselling skills. These counselling skills are developed through a scaffolded learning approach in which the content of seminars follows the four processes of motivational interviewing: engaging, focusing, evoking and planning. In doing so students learn how to apply counselling skills that are underpinned by the philosophy of motivational interviewing to reduce harm from alcohol and other drugs. Students are required to engage in ongoing reflective practice to increase personal insight into the role of their own interpersonal processes when working with clients. Students learn how to use models of psychopathology to develop case formulations.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed ADS2253.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ADS5303.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate skills in motivational interviewing to reduce alcohol- and other drug-related harm among diverse populations.
  2. Apply models of psychopathology to develop evidence-based formulations for clients experiencing alcohol or other drug-related problems.
  3. Reflect upon personal emotional reactions during counselling to improve professional practice.

Unit Content

  1. Counselling Micro-Skills.
  2. Motivational interviewing.
  3. Transference and counter-transference.
  4. Assessment and case formulation skills.
  5. Significance of clinical supervision.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars involve experiential learning that consolidates the digital learning materials students are required to access prior to attending the seminar. Students engage in skills-based learning through role plays in which all students are required to participate. They are provided with ongoing real-time feedback in class by the lecturer and then feedback through completing a video demonstration of their counselling skills. Students are required to engage in ongoing reflective practice to increase personal insight into the role of their own interpersonal processes when working with clients. These reflections involve applying models of psychopathology to enhance students’ ability to engage in case formulation. Students develop detailed case formulations that meets industry standards.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Performance ^Counselling skills role play45%
ReportCase formulation for alcohol and other drug addiction40%
Reflective PracticeCounselling skills personal reflection15%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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