Counselling Skills 2
PostgraduateTAS-KHA5022025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $2,780
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Counselling Skills 2
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Apply basic and advanced counselling skills in a professional manner
- Engage with a variety of client presentations and tailor your approach to the specific client’s needs
- Discuss how culture may affect communication and describe the skills and attitudes required of a culturally sensitive counsellor
- Justify therapeutic decision making, supporting professional decisions with evidence from the research literature
- Reflect on professional skills development and constructively critique your own counselling performance
- Introduction and Orientation to the Unit
- The Intake Interview
- Cultural Considerations in Counselling
- Goal Setting and Brief Interventions
- Stages of Therapy
- Risk Management
- Cognitive Counselling
- Stress Management
- Relaxation Training
- Conflict Resolution and Mediation
- Group Counselling
- Counselling and the Elderly
- Specific Client Populations
In this subject you will learn to apply advanced counselling skills, including working with a range of client presentations and intervention strategies. You will gain skills and knowledge to help you navigate the stages of therapy, beginning with the intake interview. This subject will challenge you to extend your foundational knowledge and skills to more specific and advanced approaches to counselling, including how to tailor your approach to the specific needs of different client presentations. You will also work to deepen your reflective practice as you engage in more complex counselling interactions.
- Presentation (25%)
- Skills Demonstration (40%)
- Self-critique of counselling skills (35%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-COU-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate of Counselling
- TAS-COU-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma in Counselling
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or enrol in the following subject(s) to study at the same time or prior to this subject:
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching arrangement: 3 x 3 hour synchronous online workshops; 4 x 1 hour synchronous online seminar; asynchronous engagement in online learning 10 hours weekly.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate of Counselling
PostgraduateTAS-COU-GCE
Graduate Diploma in Counselling
PostgraduateTAS-COU-GDI