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Details for SSC561 Professional Accountability for Supervisors

Maintaining professional accountability is essential for professional supervisors within professional supervision. This subject is a co-requisite subject with the professional supervision placement unit (SSC560), offering fortnightly group supervision classes to support your placement. This unit develops integration of theoretical learning with real-life practice experiences. It oversees the alignment of practice with industry practice standards through reflexive practice development and ethical considerations.

Quick Stats

  • Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
  • Course code: SSC561
  • Credit points: 10

Subject Coordinator

Rebecca Loundar

Prerequisite

The following subject is a prerequisite:

  • SSC562 Professional Supervision in Practice
  • SSC560 Supervision of People Helpers (Co-requisite)

Unit Content

Outcomes

  1. Critically analyse professional frameworks and guidelines of professional practice;
  2. Critically reflect on professional supervision: pastoral and clinical, including individual and group processes;
  3. Consider and integrate professional feedback into ongoing professional development in a group supervision environment;
  4. Critically analyse issues and challenges in professional practice both individually and groups, with consideration given to industry standards and a Christian worldview.

Subject Content

  • Professional placement requirements
  • Understanding and participating in individual and group supervision
  • Presentation skills for individual and group supervision
  • Professional issues in group supervision
  • Giving and receiving feedback
  • Professional practice and case management
  • Considerations for group process in workplace and counselling contexts

This course may be offered in the following formats

  • Onsite (face-to-face)
  • Online (e-Learning)
  • Intensives
  • Extensive

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

  • Paper (25%)
  • Case Presentations (50%)
  • Essay (25%)

Prescribed Text

  • Hawkins, P. & McMahon, A., (2020). Supervision in the helping professions (5th ed.). McGraw Hill.

Please consult your instructor prior to purchasing any texts