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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 2

  • Unit Code

    ADS3351

  • Year

    2018

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Stephen Jason BRIGHT

Description

This unit builds on the alcohol, tobacco and other drug counselling skills acquired in the prerequisite unit. Students practice skills required when working with specialist groups such as coerced clients and young people. How to address the needs of family and friends is covered along with ways of working with individuals experiencing a range of co-occurring issues.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ADS3252

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate brief intervention counselling skills for smoking behaviour.
  2. Demonstrate skills in counselling ATOD clients mandated to attend for counselling.
  3. Demonstrate skills in harm reduction counselling.
  4. Demonstrate skills in utilising screening instruments.

Unit Content

  1. Brief intervention for reducing smoking behaviour.
  2. Counselling coerced clients.
  3. Counselling young people and significant others.
  4. Harm reduction counselling.
  5. Screening and brief intervention counselling for alcohol-related problems.
  6. Working with culturally diverse and complex clients.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lecturers, seminars, audio visual materials, case studies, role plays and demonstrations, and e-learning activities.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayCase study report in essay format40%
PresentationAssessment of videotaped counselling role play45%
Reflective PracticeReflection on practice15%

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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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 2

  • Unit Code

    ADS3351

  • Year

    2018

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Stephen Jason BRIGHT

Description

This unit builds on the alcohol, tobacco and other drug counselling skills acquired in the prerequisite unit. Students practice skills required when working with specialist groups such as coerced clients and young people. How to address the needs of family and friends is covered along with ways of working with individuals experiencing a range of co-occurring issues.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ADS3252

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate brief intervention counselling skills for smoking behaviour.
  2. Demonstrate skills in counselling ATOD clients mandated to attend for counselling.
  3. Demonstrate skills in harm reduction counselling.
  4. Demonstrate skills in utilising screening instruments.

Unit Content

  1. Screening and brief intervention counselling for alcohol-related problems.
  2. Harm reduction counselling.
  3. Working with culturally diverse and complex clients.
  4. Brief intervention for reducing smoking behaviour.
  5. Counselling young people and significant others.
  6. Counselling coerced clients.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lecturers, seminars, audio visual materials, case studies, role plays and demonstrations, and e-learning activities.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayCounselling Skills Assignment40%
PerformanceAssessment of videotaped counselling role play45%
JournalReflective Practice15%

Core Reading(s)

  • Marsh, A., Dale, A., & O'Toole, S. (2013). Addiction counselling : content and process (Second edition.). East Hawthorn, Victoria: IP Communications.

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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