PSY4140 Introduction to counselling
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
PSY4140 Introduction to counselling is a level 4, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. It isn't offered in 2023. It needs PSY4111 and PSY4122.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2023
- Other periods
- Monash Online
- Assessment
- No exam
- 4 tasks
This is the 2023 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before PSY4140
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
After PSY4140
No unit lists PSY4140 as a prerequisite in the 2023 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Corequisite: Must be enrolled in either of the GDP course codes (M5013 or 4525).
Prohibition: PSY4170
Overview
This unit covers all important introductory aspects of counselling. Themes to be covered include theories of counselling, evaluation of how personal beliefs and values influence the counselling process and legal and ethical issues in counselling psychology. Students will be provided with a broad overview of the field of counselling psychology and will be expected to be able to compare and contrast different theoretical perspectives and reflect on how these perspectives would influence their (potential) counselling style and practice.
Offerings in 2023
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching period 1 | Monash Online | Mo |
Assessment
- Reflective clinical commentaries (2 x 500 words each)20%
- Essay (1,000 words)20%
- Simulated counselling session with reflective commentary (10 mins 750 words)30%
- 6 x Secure online tests30%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Explain and contrast a variety of theoretical approaches to counselling including individual, group and systems approaches.
- 2
Critically analyse specific concepts and techniques used by various theoretical approaches to counselling.
- 3
Recognise and reflect upon the influence of personal values and beliefs on the counselling process.
- 4
Identify and provide solutions to ethical and legal issues, and develop skills in ethical decision making in counselling.
- 5
Explain which theoretical perspectives within counselling (including concepts and techniques) best fits with the students' own values, beliefs and experiences and therefore would be more likely to be adopted by the student to use within their own potential counselling practice in the future.
- 6
Communicate the importance of the guidelines available to psychologists, and explain where to access the appropriate and relevant guidelines.
Workload and teaching
- Tutorials6 hours
- Teaching approachOnline learning
Students should expect to spend a minimum of 20 hours per week on this unit to achieve the learning outcomes.
This time will cover:
a) video lecture materials;
b) synchronous & asynchronous discussion;
c) synchronous web-based 'class-time' for skills-based activities;
d) weekly readings;
e) weekly skills-based assessment tasks; and
f) content-based assessment, including revision and formative assessment.
Each week there will be a one hour ‘Live class’, facilitated by your instructor. This will be followed by a live office hour, where you can ask questions and chat with your classmates and instructor about anything to do with the unit or psychology in general. There is also a 1 hour live chat with the Senior Instructor that you can attend each week for additional discussion and guidance.
For full details of the teaching approach to this unit, please refer to Moodle.
Learning resources
Required resources
See Moodle for details about required resources.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Heather Soo
- Unit Coordinators
- Simone Thomas