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

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • 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 and other drug counselling skills acquired in the prerequisite unit to deliver brief interventions using screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) model. Students practice skills required when working with specialist groups such as coerced clients, Aboriginal people, young people, and people with comorbid mental health problems. The needs of family and friends is covered, in addition to ways of working with vulnerable individuals experiencing a range of co-occurring issues. Students are required to engage in ongoing reflective practice to increase personal insight into the role of their professional practice.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed ADS2356 and ADS3252.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply brief interventions to reduce alcohol and other drug-related harm when counselling people with alcohol and other drug-related problems.
  2. Formulate evidence-based interventions for people experiencing alcohol or other drug-related problems.
  3. Reflect upon performance during counselling to improve professional practice.

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. Counselling young people and significant others (e.g., parents, partners, etc.).
  5. Counselling coerced clients.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 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 also work in groups to develop clinical reasoning skills by discussing case studies. In doing so, students are required to develop a case conceptualisation that contains a detailed formulation and treatment plan that is consistent with industry standards. There are guest lectures from key industry experts.

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 ^Brief Intervention Role Play45%
ReportCase Formulation and Treatment Plan40%
Reflective PracticeCounselling Skills Reflective Practice15%

^ 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.

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

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • 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 and other drug counselling skills acquired in the prerequisite unit to deliver brief interventions using screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) model. Students practice skills required when working with specialist groups such as coerced clients, Aboriginal people, young people, and people with comorbid mental health problems. The needs of family and friends is covered, in addition to ways of working with vulnerable individuals experiencing a range of co-occurring issues. Students are required to engage in ongoing reflective practice to increase personal insight into the role of their professional practice.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed ADS2356 and ADS3252.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply brief interventions to reduce alcohol and other drug-related harm when counselling people with alcohol and other drug-related problems.
  2. Formulate evidence-based interventions for people experiencing alcohol or other drug-related problems.
  3. Reflect upon performance during counselling to improve professional practice.

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. Counselling young people and significant others (e.g., parents, partners, etc.).
  5. Counselling coerced clients.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 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 also work in groups to develop clinical reasoning skills by discussing case studies. In doing so, students are required to develop a case conceptualisation that contains a detailed formulation and treatment plan that is consistent with industry standards. There are guest lectures from key industry experts.

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 ^Brief Intervention Role Play45%
ReportCase Formulation and Treatment Plan40%
Reflective PracticeCounselling Skills Reflective Practice15%

^ 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.

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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