EUQ640 Introductory Educational Counselling
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| Unit code: | EUQ640 |
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| Equivalent(s): | LCN636, EUN666 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $555 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
| International unit fee | $4,020 |
Unit Outline: Session 1 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | EUQ640 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EUN666, LCN636 |
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 psychology (CLO1.1).
- Demonstrate cognitive and critical reflection skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and professional practice or scholarship of counselling psychology (CLO2.1).
- Demonstrate technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments in counselling psychology 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).
- Apply knowledge and counselling skills to plan and execute a substantial research based project, capstone experience or piece of scholarship (CLO3.2).
Content
This unit will introduce:
- Issues relating to self as they impinge upon our relationships with others.
- The development of counselling psychology and the personal characteristics associated with effective counsellors.
- The development and maintenance of a counselling relationship.
- A range of counselling skills including: building rapport, active listening, observation, attending, body language, reflection of feelings and content, questioning, paraphrasing, summarising and normalising.
- Counselling theories with particular use in the school setting.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following:
- Online modules
- Online discussions
- Readings
- Activities.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain feedback in this unit by participating in regular online discussion forums and collaborative learning activities. Assessment will receive criteria based grading and comments and the criteria will be considered by the cohort prior to assessment submission. Feedback should enhance learning in further study regarding advanced counselling.
Formative feedback in this unit will include feedback on your explanation and evaluation of two scholarly sources related to educational counselling, designed to support your learning and to provide a foundation for both assessment tasks.
Assessment
Overview
You will gain feedback in this unit by participating in regular online discussion forums and collaborative learning activities. Assessment will receive criteria based grading and comments and the criteria will be considered by the cohort prior to assessment submission. Feedback should enhance learning in further study regarding advanced counselling.
Formative feedback in this unit will include feedback on your explanation and evaluation of two scholarly sources related to educational counselling, designed to support your learning and to provide a foundation for both assessment tasks.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Literature Review
A critical review of an area of literature related to counselling.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Demonstration
Video recording of counselling session and evaluative report.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
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.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
The following resource materials will be used throughout this unit.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Geldard, D., & Geldard, K. (2017). Basic personal counselling: A training manual for counsellors (8th ed.). Sydney, NSW: Pearson Education Australia.
Text is available on-line via QUT library but the number of students able to access at one time is limited.
Other
You will also find additional resource materials for this unit via resources and readings provided and relevant counselling websites.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with general participation in this unit. Workplace Health and Safety protocols associated with computer use will apply.
Students must comply with netiquette guidelines agreed at the outset of the unit and ensure they act in a professional manner throughout and respect others in all interactions. Please refer to QUT guidelines on communication.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EQ60 Graduate Certificate in Education
- Demonstrate a body of knowledge including understanding recent developments in the field of education (CLO 1.1).
Relates to: ULO1 - Use cognitive and critical reflection skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and professional practice or scholarship in the field of education (CLO2.1).
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to professional practice or scholarship (CLO2.4).
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate application of knowledge and 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).
Relates to: ULO4
EQ71 Master of Education
- Demonstrate a body of knowledge including understanding recent developments in the field of education (CLO1.1).
Relates to: ULO1 - Use cognitive and critical reflection skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and professional practice or scholarship in the field of education (CLO2.1).
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to professional education practice or scholarship (CLO2.4).
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate application of knowledge and skills with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional educational practice and/or for further learning with high level personal autonomy and accountability (CLO3.1).
Relates to: ULO4 - Demonstrate ability to apply knowledge and skills to plan and execute a significant piece of research-based scholarship in the field of education (CLO 3.2).
Relates to: ULO5
Unit Outline: Session 3 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | EUQ640 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EUN666, LCN636 |
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 psychology (CLO1.1).
- Demonstrate cognitive and critical reflection skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and professional practice or scholarship of counselling psychology (CLO2.1).
- Demonstrate technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments in counselling psychology 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).
- Apply knowledge and counselling skills to plan and execute a substantial research based project, capstone experience or piece of scholarship (CLO3.2).
Content
This unit will introduce:
- Issues relating to self as they impinge upon our relationships with others.
- The development of counselling psychology and the personal characteristics associated with effective counsellors.
- The development and maintenance of a counselling relationship.
- A range of counselling skills including: building rapport, active listening, observation, attending, body language, reflection of feelings and content, questioning, paraphrasing, summarising and normalising.
- Counselling theories with particular use in the school setting.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following:
- Online modules
- Online discussions
- Readings
- Activities.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain feedback in this unit by participating in regular online discussion forums and collaborative learning activities. Assessment will receive criteria based grading and comments and the criteria will be considered by the cohort prior to assessment submission. Feedback should enhance learning in further study regarding advanced counselling.
Formative feedback in this unit will include feedback on your explanation and evaluation of two scholarly sources related to educational counselling, designed to support your learning and to provide a foundation for both assessment tasks.
Assessment
Overview
You will gain feedback in this unit by participating in regular online discussion forums and collaborative learning activities. Assessment will receive criteria based grading and comments and the criteria will be considered by the cohort prior to assessment submission. Feedback should enhance learning in further study regarding advanced counselling.
Formative feedback in this unit will include feedback on your explanation and evaluation of two scholarly sources related to educational counselling, designed to support your learning and to provide a foundation for both assessment tasks.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Literature Review
A critical review of an area of literature related to counselling.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Demonstration
Video recording of counselling session and evaluative report.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
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.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
The following resource materials will be used throughout this unit.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Geldard, D., & Geldard, K. (2017). Basic personal counselling: A training manual for counsellors (8th ed.). Sydney, NSW: Pearson Education Australia.
Text is available on-line via QUT library but the number of students able to access at one time is limited.
Other
You will also find additional resource materials for this unit via resources and readings provided and relevant counselling websites.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with general participation in this unit. Workplace Health and Safety protocols associated with computer use will apply.
Students must comply with netiquette guidelines agreed at the outset of the unit and ensure they act in a professional manner throughout and respect others in all interactions. Please refer to QUT guidelines on communication.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EQ60 Graduate Certificate in Education
- Demonstrate a body of knowledge including understanding recent developments in the field of education (CLO 1.1).
Relates to: ULO1 - Use cognitive and critical reflection skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and professional practice or scholarship in the field of education (CLO2.1).
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to professional practice or scholarship (CLO2.4).
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate application of knowledge and 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).
Relates to: ULO4
EQ71 Master of Education
- Demonstrate a body of knowledge including understanding recent developments in the field of education (CLO1.1).
Relates to: ULO1 - Use cognitive and critical reflection skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and professional practice or scholarship in the field of education (CLO2.1).
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to professional education practice or scholarship (CLO2.4).
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate application of knowledge and skills with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional educational practice and/or for further learning with high level personal autonomy and accountability (CLO3.1).
Relates to: ULO4 - Demonstrate ability to apply knowledge and skills to plan and execute a significant piece of research-based scholarship in the field of education (CLO 3.2).
Relates to: ULO5