Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Arts and Humanities

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• Unit Title

  Group Supervision 1

• Unit Code

  COU6430

• Year

  2025

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  2

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

• Unit Coordinator

  Ms Karen DARE

Description

This unit runs concurrently, and is an adjunct to learning in the Field Placement 1 unit COU6424. In addition to supervision by the agency supervisor students are required to participate in Reflective Group supervision on campus, conducted by the Clinical Supervisor. Students will be required to present case material from their placement agency experience, discuss and reflect on their skill development, their experience of application of theory to real world practice, and reflect on their personal responses to case material. Depending on the placement needs of students’, the emphasis of Semester One placement is on individual, child and adolescent as well as couple and family counselling and psychotherapy. Cultural humility and ethics are focal points for case discussion. 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.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Runs concurrently with COU6424 Field Placement 1. Oncampus Reflective Group supervision

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 4 units from COU5210, COU6114, COU6324, COU6403

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Apply theoretical frameworks and clinical skills to work with diversity of individual clients considering a range of social contextual, cultural, ethical and organisational factors.
2. Constructively contribute to clinical case discussions within the forum of the on campus group supervision.
3. Explicate an assessment process and formulate an intervention plan utilising theoretical approaches taught in the course, based on work with individual clients, couples or families.
4. Generate reflections at multiple levels on placement learning experiences and constructively contribute to case discussions in the on campus supervision groups.
5. Prepare clinical material for group presentation with a focus on consideration of relational dynamics.

Unit Content

1. Formulation of clinical case material derived from placement experience relating to individual couple and family counselling and psychotherapy utilising theoretical approaches taught in the course.
2. Group process of reflection on clinical material presented by peers, with a focus on relational processes such as transference, countertransference, projection and parallel process in systemic practice.
3. In turn students plan, prepare, and present clinical case material derived from placement experience relating to individual, couple and family counselling and psychotherapy within an ethical and culturally humble framework.
4. Knowledge of ethical requirements and professional standards of practice.
5. Outline and review of specific agency policies and procedures, target client groups, intervention models and orientation processes across range of group participant/student placements.
6. Synthesis of social contextual and cultural perspectives in application of clinical approaches to diverse populations and organisational contexts.

Learning Experience

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

The emphasis of the unit will be on clinical supervision and reflective practice in a small group context. Students will present to the group transcript material from their own sessions, with facilitated discussion as the tool enabling both individual, couple and group focussed supervision.

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 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.