Details for SSC561 Professional Accountability for Supervisors

Maintaining professional accountability is essential for professional supervisors within professional supervision. This subject is a co-requisite subject with the professional supervision placement unit (SSC560), offering fortnightly group supervision classes to support your placement. This unit develops integration of theoretical learning with real-life practice experiences. It oversees the alignment of practice with industry practice standards through reflexive practice development and ethical considerations.

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: SSC561
• Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

Pre-req: SSC562Co-req: SSC560

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Critically analyse professional frameworks and guidelines of professional practice;
2. Critically reflect on professional supervision: pastoral and clinical, 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 both individually and groups, with consideration given to industry standards and a Christian worldview.

Subject Content

• Professional placement requirements
• Understanding and participating in individual and group supervision
• Presentation skills for individual and group supervision
• Professional issues in group supervision
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Professional practice and case management
• Considerations for group process in workplace and counselling contexts

This course may be offered in the following formats

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

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 Report and Presentation (2 x 25%)
• Group Project and Presentation (25%)

Prescribed Text

Cleak, H.M., & Wilson, J. (2019). Making the most of field placement. (4th ed.) South Melbourne: Cengage Learning Australia.