Details for Foundations of Professional Practice

Please note: This subject will replace 'SSC514 Counselling Practice II' from Semester 2 (2023) onwards (new code and name only).

Awards offering Foundations of Professional Practice

This unit is offered as a part of the following awards:

• Graduate Certificate in Arts
• Graduate Certificate in Wellbeing Studies
• Graduate Diploma in Arts
• Graduate Diploma of Applied Social Science
• Graduate Diploma of Counselling
• Master of Arts
• Master of Counselling

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Synthesise the principles of reflective practice and supervision as components of ongoing professional development and wellbeing;
2. Develop the skills for integrating core competencies and micro-skills with a range of evidence-based counselling techniques and contexts;
3. Critique counselling skills within a counselling framework to assess, formulate and assist clients in addressing identified issues;
4. Develop an understanding of and commitment to professional and ethical counselling practice;
5. Address specific client presentations within individual and group contexts;

Subject Content

• Nature of counselling in individual and group contexts
• Counselling frameworks and foundation skills, with focus on assessment, case formulation, treatment planning, intervention and review
• Identifying the client’s problem
• Helping clients tell their stories
• Using the basic listening sequence
• Reflecting meaning, utilising influencing skills and other strategies for change
• Focussed learning on three current evidence-based counselling theories and interventions, including brief therapies
• Applying counselling theories and therapies to common presenting issues in counselling settings, including loneliness, low self-esteem, stress and anger
• Demonstrate capacity for self-reflection and engagement in professional supervision
• Professional and ethical practice, including note-taking, file management, confidentiality and mandatory reporting
• Group processes and interventions

This course may be offered in the following formats

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

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

• Critical Reflection (25%)
• Interview, Critique & Client Folder (50%)
• Report and Resource for Practitioners (25%)

Prescribed Text

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

Please consult your instructor prior to purchasing any texts.