Advanced Interventions in Counselling and Group Processes

PSC70017 12.5 Credit Points Singapore

Duration

  • 1 Semester

Contact hours

  • 36 hours

On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.

Prerequisites

GD-SSCPC Graduate Diploma of Social Science (Professional Counselling) OR
MA-SSCPC Master of Social Science (Professional Counselling) (or equivalent)
or
MA-COUADV Master of Counselling (Advanced), or
GD-COU Graduate Diploma of Counselling or
GC-COU Graduate Certificate of Counselling
 
AND
PSC60011, PSC60012, PSC60013, PSC60014 PSC70002, PSC70009, PSC70015

Corequisites

Nil

Aims and objectives

This unit helps students develop a more comprehensive understanding of the counselling framework and the ethical issues related to counselling. As ethics is best viewed from a developmental perspective, this subject will equip students with the basic tools for ethical reasoning. Students will also be given opportunities to discuss and reflect on the various Codes of Ethics observed and practised by different professional counselling associations. They will be engaged in individual and group supervision.


Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Effectively present and process their cases with greater depth through individual and group supervision.
2. Apply knowledge and skills to manage cases with the appropriate ethical and boundary considerations.
3. Utilise counselling skills in providing counselling support to clients.
4. Describe how clients with diagnosed mental disorders are treated in institutional settings.

Courses with unit

MA-COUADV Master of Counselling (Advanced), or
GD-COU Graduate Diploma of Counselling or
GC-COU Graduate Certificate of Counselling