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Details for SSC519 Professional Accountability

Professional accountability is crucial in developing ethical and effective practice as a counsellor or people helper. This unit is delivered in the same semester as students undertake their supervised field placements and offers weekly group supervision. Students will receive weekly support to help build their assessment and intervention skills, whilst working with actual client’s. The subject meets PACFA’s experiential training requirements, focusing on real-world application through case conferences and peer review whilst preparing you to handle professional challenges ethically and effectively, integrating critical reflection and a Christian worldview.

Quick Stats

  • Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
  • Course code: SSC519
  • Credit points: 10

Subject Coordinator

Sharon Garro

Prerequisite

Pre-req: SSC522 Ethical and Professional Issues, Co-req: SSC500 Professional Placement

Unit Content

Outcomes

  1. Critically analyse professional frameworks and guidelines of professional practice;
  2. Critically reflect on professional and/or pastoral practice; including individual and group processes;
  3. Consider and integrate professional feedback into ongoing professional development in a group supervision environment;
  4. Critically analyse issues and challenges in professional practice, with consideration given to industry standards and a Christian worldview.

Subject Content

  • Placement Contexts 
  • Supervision Professional Issues
  • Contextualisation 
  • Mentoring 
  • Models of Critical Reflection 
  • Professionalism  
  • Linking Placement and Learning 
  • Problem-Solving 
  • Application of Contextualisation 
  • Student Reports 
  • Student Reports 
  • Assessment and Evaluation 
  • Ethical and Legal Issues 
  • Challenging Issues Presentations 

This course may be offered in the following formats

  • Onsite (face-to-face)
  • Online (e-Learning)
  • Intensives

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

  • Work Context Paper and Presentation (25%)
  • Case Reports and Presentations (2 x 25%)
  • Presentation (25%)

Prescribed Text

All required readings will be provided