PSY5014 · Counselling skills for mental health and wellbeing

Overview

Person-centred communication skills are fundamental to supporting people with their mental health and wellbeing. In this unit you will develop and demonstrate evidence informed strategies for building high-quality and person-centred professional connections. Through a combination of analytic and experiential activities, you will explore the principles of trauma-aware and culturally-safe communication and strategies for identifying and responding to people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges. Opportunities will be provided to consider values, beliefs, and biases in interpersonal communication.

Areas of study: M4039 & M6042

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Analyse interpersonal communication in terms of person-centredness and core communication skills.
2. Demonstrate core interpersonal communication skills for supporting mental health and wellbeing.
3. Demonstrate interpersonal strategies for developing high-quality connections characterised by openness, positivity and other-awareness.
4. Apply trauma aware and culturally responsive strategies to support safer and ethical interpersonal connections.
5. Consider the impact of personal and professional values on interpersonal communication in support settings.

Workload

You should expect to spend 20-24 hours per week on this unit to achieve the learning outcomes: • 5-6 hours self-directed learning journeys • 4-5 hours readings or activities • 7-8 hours skills-based assessment tasks Each week there will be an optional Zoom session.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.