EUN666 Foundations of Educational Counselling
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| Unit code: | EUN666 |
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| Equivalent(s): | LCN636, EUQ640 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $578 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,216 |
| International unit fee | $4,344 |
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 02A 2025, Online (Start Date: 06 Jan 2025)
| Unit code: | EUN666 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | LCN636, EUQ640 |
Overview
This unit will introduce you to core counselling techniques and communication skills that underpin effective helping strategies used by counsellors in a range of helping professions. The unit will assist you to understand and use particular skills that help to increase your own self-awareness and awareness of the needs of others. The aim of effective counselling is to develop the capacity of clients to problem-solve and to work towards their goals and potential.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a body of knowledge including understanding recent developments in the field of counselling (CLO1.1).
- Demonstrate cognitive and critical reflection skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and professional practice or scholarship of counselling (CLO2.1).
- Demonstrate technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments in counselling that contribute to professional practice or scholarship (CLO2.4).
- Apply knowledge of counselling theories and counselling skills with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional practice and/or for further learning with high level personal autonomy and accountability (CLO3.1).
Content
This unit will cover the following topics:
- Define the issues relating to self as they impinge upon our relationships with others.
- Examine the development of counselling psychology and the personal characteristics associated with effective counsellors.
- Observe and practice the following counselling/helping skills: observation, attending, open and closed questioning, paraphrasing, reflecting feeling, reflecting content, summarising, normalising and challenging.
- Developing a counselling relationship.
- Introduce some counselling theories with particular use in the school setting and apply these to practical situations.
Learning Approaches
The unit will be delivered in workshop/seminar style over four full days of intensive on-line sessions. Attendance is mandatory to support your success in learning and with assessment. Assessment will be due throughout the six-week teaching period. There will be no further classes after the intensive on-line sessions.
Synchronous and asynchronous learning approaches will be used which include video, interactive group learning, practice sessions using role play, demonstrations, group discussions and lectures. Regular opportunities will be provided during the intensive on-line sessions for practicing counselling skills and strategies.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain feedback in this unit by participating in discussion and activities that contribute to your understanding and skill for completion of your assessment tasks. This will occur during the intensive on-line sessions with academics and peers and via email (as needed) with academics throughout the teaching period.
Assessment
Overview
- You will produce a video-recording of yourself undertaking a counselling session that demonstrates your use of counselling skills studied during the unit. You will also write a critique/evaluation of your use of skills during the counseling session.
- You will write a critical review of an area of literature related to counselling.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Demonstration (video) and Evaluative Report
You will produce a video-recording of yourself undertaking a counselling session that demonstrates your use of counselling skills studied during the unit. You will also write a critique/evaluation of your use of skills during the counselling session.
Relates to learning outcomes
CLOs 1.1, 2.1, 2.4
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Annotated Bibliography
You will write a critical review of an area of literature related to counselling.
Relates to learning outcomes
CLOs 1.1, 2.1, 2.4, 3.1
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Access to internet and video recording equipment.
Resources
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Geldard, D., Geldard, K., & Foo, R. (2022). Basic personal counselling: A training manual for counsellors (9th ed.). Sydney NSW: Pearson Education Australia.
Text is available through the QUT bookshop and on-line via QUT library but the number of students able to access via the library at one time is limited.
Other
Students will find additional resource materials for this unit via Canvas and QUT Readings.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with the general conduct of this unit.
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 08A 2025, Online (Start Date: 07 Jul 2025)
| Unit code: | EUN666 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | LCN636, EUQ640 |
Overview
This unit will introduce you to core counselling techniques and communication skills that underpin effective helping strategies used by counsellors in a range of helping professions. The unit will assist you to understand and use particular skills that help to increase your own self-awareness and awareness of the needs of others. The aim of effective counselling is to develop the capacity of clients to problem-solve and to work towards their goals and potential.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a body of knowledge including understanding recent developments in the field of counselling (CLO1.1).
- Demonstrate cognitive and critical reflection skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and professional practice or scholarship of counselling (CLO2.1).
- Demonstrate technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments in counselling that contribute to professional practice or scholarship (CLO2.4).
- Apply knowledge of counselling theories and counselling skills with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional practice and/or for further learning with high level personal autonomy and accountability (CLO3.1).
Content
This unit will cover the following topics:
- Define the issues relating to self as they impinge upon our relationships with others.
- Examine the development of counselling psychology and the personal characteristics associated with effective counsellors.
- Observe and practice the following counselling/helping skills: observation, attending, open and closed questioning, paraphrasing, reflecting feeling, reflecting content, summarising, normalising and challenging.
- Developing a counselling relationship.
- Introduce some counselling theories with particular use in the school setting and apply these to practical situations.
Learning Approaches
The unit will be delivered in workshop/seminar style over four full days of intensive on-line sessions. Attendance is mandatory to support your success in learning and with assessment. Assessment will be due throughout the six-week teaching period. There will be no further classes after the intensive on-line sessions.
Synchronous and asynchronous learning approaches will be used which include video, interactive group learning, practice sessions using role play, demonstrations, group discussions and lectures. Regular opportunities will be provided during the intensive on-line sessions for practicing counselling skills and strategies.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain feedback in this unit by participating in discussion and activities that contribute to your understanding and skill for completion of your assessment tasks. This will occur during the intensive on-line sessions with academics and peers and via email (as needed) with academics throughout the teaching period.
Assessment
Overview
- You will produce a video-recording of yourself undertaking a counselling session that demonstrates your use of counselling skills studied during the unit. You will also write a critique/evaluation of your use of skills during the counseling session.
- You will write a critical review of an area of literature related to counselling.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Demonstration (video) and Evaluative Report
You will produce a video-recording of yourself undertaking a counselling session that demonstrates your use of counselling skills studied during the unit. You will also write a critique/evaluation of your use of skills during the counselling session.
Relates to learning outcomes
CLOs 1.1, 2.1, 2.4
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Annotated Bibliography
You will write a critical review of an area of literature related to counselling.
Relates to learning outcomes
CLOs 1.1, 2.1, 2.4, 3.1
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Access to internet and video recording equipment.
Resources
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Geldard, D., Geldard, K., & Foo, R. (2022). Basic personal counselling: A training manual for counsellors (9th ed.). Sydney NSW: Pearson Education Australia.
Text is available through the QUT bookshop and on-line via QUT library but the number of students able to access via the library at one time is limited.
Other
Students will find additional resource materials for this unit via Canvas and QUT Readings.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with the general conduct of this unit.