CN9700 Reflective Practice
Unit Description
Pre-requisites
CN9400 Professional Placement 1;
CN9600 Professional Placement 2
Co-requisites
None.Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:
Rationalise own growth and development in counselling practice in light of prior goals, hopes and expectations
Synthesise theoretical, theological and personal learning from the entire course of study
Critically evaluate areas of proficiency and deficit in counselling skills, including cross-cultural competency, and formulate goals for growth
Create and validate a capstone project based on an area of particular interest in counselling
Unit Description
Reflective Practice is a capstone unit that attempts to draw together students’ learning throughout the Master of Counselling. It provides opportunity to reflect on and synthesise personal, theoretical and practical learning and to respond to these reflections through a minor capstone project.
Students in CN9700 support each other in debriefing and summarising their masters journey as well as thinking forward towards their coming career. Lessons incorporate one-to-one peer debriefing sessions as well as group discussions and reflection activities. Assessments include a series of short reflection papers focusing on particularly impactful or difficult units of learning engaged in during graduate study, a capstone project proposal that incorporates elements of self-examination, and the capstone project itself in which students will have the opportunity to make use of counselling skills, theories and principles to engage with their community or a particular practice population.
Topics
- Narrating your Learning journey
- Reflecting on Challenges, Opportunities and Triumphs
- Creating a timeline of learning
- The Team of Life
- Reflecting on Growth
- Reflecting on cross-cultural and indigenous cultural competency
- Reflecting on special interests or abilities in counselling
- Drawing the Theoretical Threads Together
- How to develop a capstone project
- Capstone project presentations
Assessment and Indicative Load
Assessment types include Reflection Paper, Project, and Attendance. Indicative study load is 150 hours.
Unit offerings
Face to face: (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.