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On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:
Identify the essential qualities of an effective counsellor and explain the importance of the different aspects of the counselling relationship.
Observe their own interpersonal and emotional processes and experiences and explain their impact on the development of the counselling relationship.
Recognise the influence of their own beliefs, assumptions, and cultural biases so they can help others do the same.
Report on the effectiveness with which a therapeutic relationship has been established for the purposes of an initial interview.
This unit provides an in depth exploration of the essential relational qualities relevant to counselling. Learners are encouraged to develop an understanding of these qualities by reflecting on their own past experiences and by means of structured experiences and role plays from the vantage points of client, counsellor and student.
Such exploration shall provide the learner with a springboard for developing an appreciation not only of empathy, acceptance and genuineness but also of the significance of curiosity, hopefulness, power dynamics and the role of culture in the counsellng relationship.
The unit highlights the value of holding the tension between contrasting and often contradictory ideas, of playing with the experiential possibilities and of allowing a paradoxical security which can live with and at times even thrive in the absence of final and fixed truths.
Teaching strategies include lectures and tutorials, weekend schools; class discussions; role plays and practice of skills within class; presentation of instructional material in the form of printed documentation, DVD, video and audio tape and on-line interaction.
The Unit Offerings listed above are a guide only and the timetable for any year is the final authority. The College may vary offerings based on demand, regulatory requirements, continual improvement processes or other conditions.
This unit may be available in different modes of delivery i.e. online and face-to-face as listed above. The unit content will not differ between these modes of delivery. There will possibly be a difference in the schedule and/or the prescribed assessment tasks, however both will cover and assess the same content.