CN5100 Essential Counselling Skills
Unit Description
Pre-requisites
None.Co-requisites
None.Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:
Recognise counselling skills essential to helping conversations.
Demonstrate introductory level skills in rapport and collaboration building for helping conversations
Identify personal strengths and weaknesses in the use of essential counselling practices
Outline methods for supporting clients to define problems and adopt a hopeful perspective
Unit Description
Essential Counselling Skills introduces students to counselling as a set of skills and ideas and provides them with a complete process for counselling sessions - from listening for understanding to creating collaboration, defining and naming problems and helping clients develop context-specific solutions. Combining essential practices from person-centred counselling, Narrative Therapy and Solution Focused Brief Therapy this unit gives new counsellors confidence in supporting clients to take action towards positive change.
Essential Counselling Skills teaches foundational principles and skills that will be elaborated and built upon in subsequent counselling skills units.
Topics
- What is counselling?
- Building rapport I: Listening for Understanding and Connection
- Building Rapport II: Creating Collaboration
- Giving and Receiving Feedback
- Defining and Naming Problems
- Inspiring Hope for Change
- Responding to Strong Emotions
- Reflecting on Experienced Practitioner Sessions
Unit offerings
Online: (Demand based)Please note
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.