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

    COU3106
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This training 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 of students working in groups of three. Each student will have a number of opportunities to take 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.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from COU3101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU0106, COU5106

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the characteristics and practical skills associated with an existential and person-centered approach to counselling.
  2. Demonstrate a constructive critical attitude to their skills work and personal style of clinical practice.
  3. Demonstrate an ability to be open to their own emotional process including an ongoing commitment to self-evaluation; and,
  4. Demonstrate their active participation in the training sessions.

Unit Content

  1. Basic attending and listening.
  2. Congruence and positive regard.
  3. Empathy and counsellors self-acceptance.
  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%
ExaminationAppraisal of Humanistic Psychotherapy practice50%

Text References

  • ^ Barnett, L. & Madison, G. (2012). Existential therapy: Legacy, vibrancy and dialogue. Taylor and Francis.
  • 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

    COU3106
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This training 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 of students working in groups of three. Each student will have a number of opportunities to take 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.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from COU3101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU0106, COU5106

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the characteristics and practical skills associated with an existential and person-centered approach to counselling.
  2. Demonstrate a constructive critical attitude to their skills work and personal style of clinical practice.
  3. Demonstrate an ability to be open to their own emotional process including an ongoing commitment to self-evaluation; and,
  4. Demonstrate their active participation in the training sessions.

Unit Content

  1. Basic attending and listening.
  2. Congruence and positive regard.
  3. Empathy and counsellors self-acceptance.
  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%
ExaminationAppraisal of Humanistic Psychotherapy practice50%

Text References

  • ^ Barnett, L. & Madison, G. (2012). Existential therapy: Legacy, vibrancy and dialogue. Taylor and Francis.
  • 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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