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

    Self Development 1
  • Unit Code

    COU1102
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Karen J Janine ANDERSON

Description

This self-development unit provides students with a safe and confidential setting to explore and examine their personal attitudes, views, and assumptions in an experiential and professional group setting. The practical rationale for this approach is to allow students to examine the ways in which their personal life experiences and concerns may impact on their interpersonal communication and relationship skills. Due to the experiential group method and requirement for active participation in this unit, new enrolments are not accepted after the first week of the semester.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU0102, COU5112

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss the crucial connection between personal issues and professional development.
  2. Analyse the link between their ability to self-reflect and its influence on their capacity to counsel confidentially.
  3. Demonstrate a serious, on-going commitment to work openly and constructively within a group process and a relational context.
  4. Reflect upon personal issues and relational contexts within a group setting.

Unit Content

  1. Political, social, cultural, and ethical issues in groups.
  2. Skills in developing self awareness and communication skills in interpersonal contexts.
  3. Conditions for, and issues of confidentiality and the role confidentiality plays within the counselling field.
  4. Techniques underlying reflective work.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 1 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Experiential learning processes involving small and large group participation, weekly activities and exercises, and journal writing.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

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.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
ParticipationGroup exercises and activities
JournalReflective journal
ONLINE
TypeDescription
ParticipationGroup exercises and activities
JournalReflective journal

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

    Self Development 1
  • Unit Code

    COU1102
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Karen J Janine ANDERSON

Description

This self-development unit provides students with a safe and confidential setting to explore and examine their personal attitudes, views, and assumptions in an experiential and professional group setting. The practical rationale for this approach is to allow students to examine the ways in which their personal life experiences and concerns may impact on their interpersonal communication and relationship skills. Due to the experiential group method and requirement for active participation in this unit, new enrolments are not accepted after the first week of the semester.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU0102, COU5112

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss the crucial connection between personal issues and professional development.
  2. Analyse the link between their ability to self-reflect and its influence on their capacity to counsel confidentially.
  3. Demonstrate a serious, on-going commitment to work openly and constructively within a group process and a relational context.
  4. Reflect upon personal issues and relational contexts within a group setting.

Unit Content

  1. Political, social, cultural, and ethical issues in groups.
  2. Skills in developing self awareness and communication skills in interpersonal contexts.
  3. Conditions for, and issues of confidentiality and the role confidentiality plays within the counselling field.
  4. Techniques underlying reflective work.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 1 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Experiential learning processes involving small and large group participation, weekly activities and exercises, and journal writing.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

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.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
ParticipationGroup exercises and activities
JournalReflective journal
ONLINE
TypeDescription
ParticipationGroup exercises and activities
JournalReflective journal

Core Reading(s)

  • Johns, H. (2012). Personal development in counsellor training. (2nd ed.). London: Sage Publications. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/756280942
  • Ingrams, J. (2012). Thinking of becoming a counsellor? (pp. xiv, 162). London: Karnac. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/777375524

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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