School: Arts and Humanities

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

    Skills Training in Humanistic Counselling
  • Unit Code

    COU0107
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit provides an introduction to the practice of a variety of fundamental skills that are grounded in the existential and humanistic tradition of counselling and psychotherapy. The practice sessions will comprise students working in small groups. Each student will have a number of opportunities to take on the role of observer, client and counsellor. Students will also be expected to actively participate in the large group discussions and to critically assess their own work and the work of their peers.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU3104, COU5106, COU5107

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Actively participate in the training sessions.
  2. Analyse the characteristics and practical skills associated with an existential and person-centered approach to counselling.
  3. Critically evaluate their skills work and personal style of clinical practice.
  4. Demonstrate an ability to be open to their own emotional process including an ongoing commitment to self-evaluation.

Unit Content

  1. Basic attending and listening.
  2. Congruence and positive regard.
  3. Empathy.
  4. Examining biases and assumptions.
  5. Humanistic core-conditions.
  6. Practice sessions.
  7. Recognising and exploring existential anxiety.
  8. Reflecting and feedback.
  9. Reflecting on self and other.
  10. Self and peer evaluation.
  11. The phenomenological attitude.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Role-play sessions, discussions and case studies

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
AssignmentCase Study Report50%
ExaminationFinal Examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCase Study Report50%
ExaminationFinal Examination50%

Text References

  • ^ Capuzzi, D. & Gross, D. (2003). Counselling and Psychotherapy -Theories and Interventions (4th ed.). New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc.
  • ^ Van-Deurzen-Smith, E. (1988). Existential Counselling in Practice. London: Sage.
  • Dryden, W. (Ed.). (1990). Individual Therapy: A Handbook. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

^ Mandatory reference


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: Arts and Humanities

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

    Skills Training in Humanistic Counselling
  • Unit Code

    COU0107
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit provides an introduction to the practice of a variety of fundamental skills that are grounded in the existential and humanistic tradition of counselling and psychotherapy. The practice sessions will comprise students working in small groups. Each student will have a number of opportunities to take on the role of observer, client and counsellor. Students will also be expected to actively participate in the large group discussions and to critically assess their own work and the work of their peers.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU3104, COU5106, COU5107

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Actively participate in the training sessions.
  2. Analyse the characteristics and practical skills associated with an existential and person-centered approach to counselling.
  3. Critically evaluate their skills work and personal style of clinical practice.
  4. Demonstrate an ability to be open to their own emotional process including an ongoing commitment to self-evaluation.

Unit Content

  1. Basic attending and listening.
  2. Congruence and positive regard.
  3. Empathy.
  4. Examining biases and assumptions.
  5. Humanistic core-conditions.
  6. Practice sessions.
  7. Recognising and exploring existential anxiety.
  8. Reflecting and feedback.
  9. Reflecting on self and other.
  10. Self and peer evaluation.
  11. The phenomenological attitude.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Role-play sessions, discussions and case studies

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
AssignmentCase Study Report50%
ExaminationFinal Examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCase Study Report50%
ExaminationFinal Examination50%

Text References

  • ^ Capuzzi, D. & Gross, D. (2003). Counselling and Psychotherapy -Theories and Interventions (4th ed.). New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc.
  • ^ Van-Deurzen-Smith, E. (1988). Existential Counselling in Practice. London: Sage.
  • Dryden, W. (Ed.). (1990). Individual Therapy: A Handbook. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

^ Mandatory reference


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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