PUB HLTH 6018 - Counselling Skills 2

Counselling Skills 2 builds on the fundamental elements of Counselling Skills 1. Students will develop a range of discrete skills including applying counselling interventions, reviewing client progress, structuring a session, managing risk and safety issues, and beginning and ending sessions effectively. Through the practice and observation of counselling skills students will be given maximum opportunity to acquire and develop appropriate and intentional counselling responses with various real client scenarios. Throughout the semester, students will be provided with ample opportunities to practice and develop their psychotherapeutic skills. Specifically, during class time, students will work in therapeutic teams and provide counselling to a number of surrogate client presentations. Course teaching staff will observe students in these tasks and providing relevant and timely feedback. The practical assessment of clinical competencies at the end of the course is a compulsory assessment and a pass is required in order to enrol in Placement 1a in the second year of the Master’s Program.