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Details for SSC221 Foundations of Professional Practice

This subject helps to prepare you to work effectively with clients by learning advanced counselling micro-skills and techniques in. With an emphasis on applying micro-skills and evidence-based methods in counselling contexts, you’ll learn how to respond to complex needs such as anxiety and stress. This unit aligns with professional practice standards, offering practical, experiential training, that includes role-plays, to continue the development of your interpersonal communication skills.

Quick Stats

  • Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
  • Course code: SSC221
  • Credit points: 10

Subject Coordinator

Karen Barnett
Elizabeth Skinner

Prerequisite

Pre-req: SSC113 Interpersonal Communication Skills

Unit Content

Outcomes

  1. Integrate and use micro- skills with both cognitive and affective counselling techniques;
  2. Intentionally apply counselling micro-skills within the counselling model to assist clients in addressing specific issues;
  3. Assist clients to identify the dimensions of specific problems and identify client resources and assets to activate positive change;
  4. Develop self–reflective and personal skills in the context of counselling practice.

Subject Content

  • Introduction, Foundational Practice & Skills
  • Counselling Framework A (Process & Skills)
  • Counselling Framework B (Process & Skills)
  • Treatment Sessions: Intake & Assessment Sessions
  • Treatment Sessions: Case Formulation & Treatment Planning
  • Treatment Sessions: Progress, Review, End of Treatment 
  • Working with the Client: Referrals, Client Folders, Note Taking
  • Specific Issues & Interventions 1
  • Specific Issues & Interventions 2
  • Specific Issues & Interventions 3
  • Professional Issues: Mandatory Reporting, Legal Matters
  • Supervision
  • Reflective Practice & Application of Learning

This course may be offered in the following formats

  • Onsite (face-to-face)
  • Online (eLearning)
  • Intensives
  • Extensives

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

Assessment Methods

  • Interview, Critique, and Client Folder (50%)
  • Report and Resource for Practitioners (25%)
  • Critical Reflection (25%)

Prescribed Text

  • Geldard, D., Geldard K., & Foo, R. (2021). Basic personal counselling (9th ed.). Melbourne, VIC: Cengage Learning Australia

Please consult your instructor prior to purchasing any textbooks.