Overview

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Academic contacts

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Offerings

MURDOCH-AW5-PLACEMENT-2018-ONGOING
MURDOCH-DE7-PLACEMENT-2018-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

Completion of all units comprising Graduate Diploma and enrolment in Master of Counselling or by permission of the Counselling Academic Chair. Students are required to provide a current Police Clearance as well as Working with Children Check prior to enrolling in this clinical placement unit.

Other learning activities

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.
Be sufficiently open and engaged while working with a range of clients with different presenting issues and relationship styles.
2.
Build a therapeutic working alliance that is sufficiently containing and includes, but is not limited to, attentiveness, process comments, and a working agreement with the client about the processes and outcomes of counselling.
3.
Develop client formulations that are used to implement treatment plans in agreement with clients.
4.
Describe your client work to your peers in the unit in verbal and written formats, with confidence and interest in the new ideas this process generates.
5.
Engage openly, self critically and reflectively with the supervisory process.
6.
Engage as a professional counsellor in the contextual issues regarding client work, including but not limited to, making and changing appointments, correspondence and report writing and protecting client confidentiality; and in relating to and working with colleagues and other staff.
7.
Develop the attributes of critical and creative thinking, the skills of collaborative teamwork, and social and civic responsibility consistent with Murdoch Graduate Attributes.

Assessments

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Additional information

Other notes:Students in this unit undertake counselling work with vulnerable members of the public: all students will be assessed through staff review, and in some cases interview, for their readiness to undertake this unit. Students may be asked to undertake extra preparation.