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Details for SSC413 Interpersonal Communication Skills

Enhance your ability to communicate effectively in professional people-helping settings. This subject will equip you with learning foundational interpersonal communication skills. Through practical exercises, you will develop your counselling micro-skills including conflict management responses, within a culturally sensitive framework. This unit is designed to meet PACFA and ACA training requirements.

Quick Stats

  • Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
  • Course code: SSC413
  • Credit points: 10

Subject Coordinator

Elizabeth Skinner
Jo McDonough

Prerequisite

Nil.

Unit Content

Outcomes

  1. Develop an understanding of foundations of communication and counselling, including wellness, socio-cultural competence and ethical practice;
  2. Develop an understanding of core competencies of counselling and people helping for individuals and groups;
  3. Generate and combine the principles for effective communication, active listening, micro-skills and conflict management into your relational style;
  4. Formulate an approach to ongoing professional development and wellbeing, including critial engagement with peers.

Subject Content

  • Introduction
  • The Nature and Purpose of Counselling
  • Transcultural Issues
  • Foundational Skills: Core Components
  • Foundational Skills: Micro-skills
  • Further Foundational Skills
  • Counselling with Emotions in Mind
  • Skills for Promoting Change
  • Clarifying the Emotional Life of the Client
  • The Wellness Approach to Transcultural Counselling
  • Dealing with Challenging Client Issues
  • Conflict Situations
  • Counselling and Christian Ministry
  • Termination/ Closure
  • Self-Care

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

  • Minor Essay (30%)
  • Skills Demonstration and Critical Reflection (50%)
  • Exams (20%)

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 texts.