Specific Skills in Counselling
Unit code: HAYS412
| Credit points | 12.5 Credit Points |
| Duration | 1 Semester |
| Contact hours | 36 hours |
| Campus | Singapore |
| Prerequisites | Admission to the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Master of Social Science (Professional Counselling). |
| Corequisites | Nil |
Related course(s)
Aims and objectives
Aims
This unit provides a focused review on the specific skills involved in counselling, with a particular focus on more advanced counselling techniques such as paraphrasing, listening, reflecting of feelings. A further aim of this unit is to provide advanced training in the three-stage model offered by Gerard Egan to help establish client empowerment and enhance problem-solving abilities.
This unit provides a focused review on the specific skills involved in counselling, with a particular focus on more advanced counselling techniques such as paraphrasing, listening, reflecting of feelings. A further aim of this unit is to provide advanced training in the three-stage model offered by Gerard Egan to help establish client empowerment and enhance problem-solving abilities.
Learning Objectives
After successfully completing this unit, students should be able to:
After successfully completing this unit, students should be able to:
* Demonstrate advanced counselling skills including specific counselling skills such as paraphrasing, listening, reflecting of feelings
* Engage in peer sharing and trainer’s guidance/feedback regarding the application and evaluation of advanced counselling skills
* Demonstrate advanced understanding and application of Gerard Egan’s problemsolving and management approach
* Demonstrate ability to elicit client values and concerns, develop collaborative client-therapist goals
* Demonstrate understanding on the humanistic approach to counselling, specifically, Carl Rogers' Client Centred Therapy
Teaching methods
Class sessions involving lectures, case studies, role-plays, presentations and class participation.
Assessment
A Pass/Fail unit of study consisting of:
* One reflective essay on counselling practice (2000 words)
* One reflective essay on counselling practice (2000 words)
* One case study report
* Demonstrated counselling competency in class exercises.
Reading materials
Egan, G., Exercises in Helping Skills (7th Edition), Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, California, 2002.
Egan, G., The Skilled Helper: A Problem Management and Development Opportunity Approach to Helping (9th Edition), Brooks/Cole,
Egan, G., The Skilled Helper: A Problem Management and Development Opportunity Approach to Helping (9th Edition), Brooks/Cole,
Pacific Grove, California, 2010.
Mearns, D., & Thorne, B., Person Centered Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory & Practice, Sage Publications, London, 2000.
Rogers, C., Client Centered Therapy, Constable, London, 1965.
Rogers, C., On Becoming a Person, Constable, London, 1961.
