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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Individual Psychotherapy Practice 2

  • Unit Code

    COU6324

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sonam PELDEN

Description

This is a clinical skills unit concerning the practice of individual psychotherapy/counselling. It aims to develop within the student roles relating to the assessment of the presenting situation, choice of appropriate interventions, and evaluation of the outcome of treatment. This unit has a compulsory attendance requirement. In keeping with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) stipulations, students need to have practiced necessary skills/competencies in the classroom to a satisfactory level before going out into the field. A minimum of 80% class attendance is therefore required.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from COU6305

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Accomplish a foundation level competency in psychodiagnostics.
  2. Appraise session outcomes both independently and in consultation with the client.
  3. Execute psychotherapeutic interventions and link these to observations about the client and the process of the counselling session.
  4. Formulate a psychodynamic case including an assessment of the client's suitability for counselling/psychotherapy.
  5. Implement active and psychoanalytic forms of listening.
  6. Monitor the limitations of the counselling context and refer in those situations better managed by another professional's expertise.

Unit Content

  1. Active listening vs. psychoanalytic forms of listening.
  2. Conceptualising: using existing theoretical models to make meaning of clinical observations, sharing these conceptionalisations with the client in a manner befitting the client and context.
  3. Empathy and evenly suspended attention.
  4. Facilitating the client's understanding of his/her difficulties. Generating productive, well-timed interpretations appropriate to the client.
  5. The assessment/formulation process: observation, description and conceptualisation leading to a sound picture of client functioning and resources.
  6. Treatment appraisal: outcome evaluation, follow-up strategies.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 24 x 8 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will centre around a reflecting team model of counselling supervision. Students will work in teams to assess, conceptualise, intervene and evaluate outcomes, working with videoed client material, role-play and actors using a one-way screen. The teaching emphasis will be on supervision rather than didactic content.

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.

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 information 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
TypeDescriptionValue
Exercise ^Class room role play50%
Practicum ^Advanced individual counselling skills30%
Practicum ^Basic Counselling Skills Report20%

^ 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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Individual Psychotherapy Practice 2

  • Unit Code

    COU6324

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sonam PELDEN

Description

This is a clinical skills unit concerning the practice of individual psychotherapy/counselling. It aims to develop within the student roles relating to the assessment of the presenting situation, choice of appropriate interventions, and evaluation of the outcome of treatment. This unit has a compulsory attendance requirement. In keeping with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) stipulations, students need to have practiced necessary skills/competencies in the classroom to a satisfactory level before going out into the field. A minimum of 80% class attendance is therefore required.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from COU6305

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Accomplish a foundation level competency in psychodiagnostics.
  2. Appraise session outcomes both independently and in consultation with the client.
  3. Execute psychotherapeutic interventions and link these to observations about the client and the process of the counselling session.
  4. Formulate a psychodynamic case including an assessment of the client's suitability for counselling/psychotherapy.
  5. Implement active and psychoanalytic forms of listening.
  6. Monitor the limitations of the counselling context and refer in those situations better managed by another professional's expertise.

Unit Content

  1. Active listening vs. psychoanalytic forms of listening.
  2. Conceptualising: using existing theoretical models to make meaning of clinical observations, sharing these conceptionalisations with the client in a manner befitting the client and context.
  3. Empathy and evenly suspended attention.
  4. Facilitating the client's understanding of his/her difficulties. Generating productive, well-timed interpretations appropriate to the client.
  5. The assessment/formulation process: observation, description and conceptualisation leading to a sound picture of client functioning and resources.
  6. Treatment appraisal: outcome evaluation, follow-up strategies.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 24 x 8 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will centre around a reflecting team model of counselling supervision. Students will work in teams to assess, conceptualise, intervene and evaluate outcomes, working with videoed client material, role-play and actors using a one-way screen. The teaching emphasis will be on supervision rather than didactic content.

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.

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 information 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
TypeDescriptionValue
Exercise ^Class room role play50%
Practicum ^Advanced individual counselling skills30%
Practicum ^Basic Counselling Skills Report20%

^ 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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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