Details for SSC113 Interpersonal Communication Skills

Enhance your ability to communicate effectively in professional people-helping settings. This subject will equip you with learning foundational interpersonal communication skills. Through practical exercises, you will develop your counselling micro-skills including conflict management responses, within a culturally sensitive framework. This unit is designed to meet PACFA and ACA training requirements.

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: SSC113
• Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

Nil

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Integrate the principles for effective communication, active listening, observation and conflict management into your relational style;
2. Practice skills for effective expression and appropriate assertiveness from a range of styles;
3. Generate skills useful for managing counselling conversations including those that may not proceed as anticipated;
4. Apply cultural sensitivity to counselling practice and develop a methodology for continued professional development and effective self-monitoring.

Subject Content

• Introduction: The Nature and Purpose of Counselling
• Transcultural Issues
• Foundational Skills: Core Components
• Foundational Skills: Micro-skills
• Further Foundational Skills
• Counselling with Emotions in Mind
• Skills for Promoting Change
• Clarifying the Emotional Life of the Client
• The Wellness Approach to Transcultural Counselling
• Dealing with Challenging Client Issues
• Conflict Situations
• Counselling and Christian Ministry
• Termination/ Closure
• Self Care

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Onsite (face-to-face)
• Online (eLearning)
• Intensives
• Extensives

This subject typically has both online pre-recorded lectures AND mandatory online-live components.

Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

• Skill Demonstration (Video) and Analysis (50%)
• Critical Reflection (25%)
• Minor Essay (25%)

Prescribed Text

• Geldard, D., Geldard K. & Foo, R. (2021). Basic personal counselling (9th ed). Melbourne, VIC: Cengage Learning Australia.