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Details for SSC319 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: SSC319
  • Credit points: 10

Subject Coordinator

Sharon Garro

Prerequisite

Pre-req: SSC222 Ethical and Professional Issues, Co-req: SSC300 Professional Placement

Unit Content

Outcomes

  1. Explain and use professional frameworks and guidelines of practice;
  2. Demonstrate competence in assessment, wisdom in intervention, promptness in necessary referrals and ethical principles in counselling and/or ministry situations;
  3. Prepare and discuss material from caseloads and key incidents in a confidential, orderly, informative and coherent manner, arguing for and defending hypotheses but able to demonstrate an ability to consider the expert opinions of others and reflect these in future practice;
  4. Critically analyse issues and challenges in professional practice from a Christian worldview.

Subject Content

  • Placement Contexts 
  • Supervision
  • Contextualisation
  • Student Presentations
  • 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 (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

  • Work Context Paper and Presentation (25%)
  • Case Reports A and B (50%)
  • Challenging Issues Presentation and Paper (25%)

Prescribed Text

All readings will be provided