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

    Skills Training in Humanistic Counselling
  • Unit Code

    COU3106
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Karen Elizabeth DARE

Description

This training unit provides an introduction to the practice of a variety of fundamental skills that are grounded in the existential and humanistic tradition of counselling and psychotherapy. The practice sessions will comprise of students working in groups of three. Each student will have a number of opportunities to take the role of observer, client and counsellor. Students will also be expected to actively participate in the large group discussions and to critically assess their own work and the work of their peers.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from COU3101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU0106, COU5106

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the characteristics and practical skills associated with an existential and person-centered approach to counselling.
  2. Demonstrate a constructive critical attitude to their skills work and personal style of clinical practice.
  3. Demonstrate an ability to be open to their own emotional process including an ongoing commitment to self-evaluation; and,
  4. Demonstrate their active participation in the training sessions.

Unit Content

  1. Basic attending and listening.
  2. Congruence and positive regard.
  3. Empathy and counsellors self-acceptance.
  4. Examining biases and assumptions.
  5. Humanistic core-conditions.
  6. Practice sessions.
  7. Recognising and exploring existential anxiety.
  8. Reflecting and feedback.
  9. Reflecting on self and other.
  10. Self and peer evaluation.
  11. The phenomenological attitude.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Role-play sessions, Discussions and Case studies.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCase study report50%
TestAppraisal of Humanistic Psychotherapy practice on a LMS test that consists of short answers, definitions and essay questions50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCase study report50%
TestAppraisal of Humanistic Psychotherapy practice on a LMS test that consists of short answers, definitions and essay questions50%

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

    Skills Training in Humanistic Counselling
  • Unit Code

    COU3106
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Karen Elizabeth DARE

Description

This training unit provides an introduction to the practice of a variety of fundamental skills that are grounded in the existential and humanistic tradition of counselling and psychotherapy. The practice sessions will comprise of students working in groups of three. Each student will have a number of opportunities to take the role of observer, client and counsellor. Students will also be expected to actively participate in the large group discussions and to critically assess their own work and the work of their peers.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from COU3101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU0106, COU5106

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the characteristics and practical skills associated with an existential and person-centered approach to counselling.
  2. Demonstrate a constructive critical attitude to their skills work and personal style of clinical practice.
  3. Demonstrate an ability to be open to their own emotional process including an ongoing commitment to self-evaluation; and,
  4. Demonstrate their active participation in the training sessions.

Unit Content

  1. Basic attending and listening.
  2. Congruence and positive regard.
  3. Empathy and counsellors self-acceptance.
  4. Examining biases and assumptions.
  5. Humanistic core-conditions.
  6. Practice sessions.
  7. Recognising and exploring existential anxiety.
  8. Reflecting and feedback.
  9. Reflecting on self and other.
  10. Self and peer evaluation.
  11. The phenomenological attitude.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Role-play sessions, Discussions and Case studies.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCase study report50%
TestAppraisal of Humanistic Psychotherapy practice on a LMS test that consists of short answers, definitions and essay questions50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCase study report50%
TestAppraisal of Humanistic Psychotherapy practice on a LMS test that consists of short answers, definitions and essay questions50%

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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