School Of Social SciencesSkills in Counselling 1Western Sydney University Unit Code: 101432.1
Discipline: COUNSELLING
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 7
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
53006 - Skills in Counselling: Application of Concepts
Corequisite
101434 Counselling: Principles and Paradigms in Practice (PG)
About this Unit
This unit introduces students to the foundational skills of all forms of counselling and psychotherapy: reflecting content and feeling, listening for themes, open questioning and the appropriate use of silence. Students practise these skills in simulated mini-counselling sessions. Feedback and coaching are provided both in class, and via a written analysis of a taped counselling session. Appropriate use of counselling skills requires well developed awareness of self and others. A small group experience (continued in Skills in Counselling II) provides students with the opportunity to learn how their behaviour affects others, in a supportive interpersonal environment. Students identify their basic personality type, and those of others, as part of an appreciation of client differences and differential responding.