Counselling Skills 1

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:

  1. Understand and demonstrate basic counselling skills
  2. Understand different models of counselling
  3. Make accurate observation of verbal and non-verbal behaviour including the ability to discriminate between observation and interpretation of behaviour
  4. Have knowledge of a generic three-stage model of counselling
  5. Establish and maintain a constructive and facilitative counselling relationship
  6. Identify and demonstrate basic counselling micro-skills
  7. Demonstrate ability to present and constructively critique one’s own counselling performance

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About University of Tasmania

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• TAS-COU-GCE-2024 - Graduate Certificate of Counselling
• TAS-COU-GDI-2024 - Graduate Diploma in Counselling

Additional requirements

• Other requirements - Teaching arrangement: 1-day workshops x 3

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.