Self-Care And The Workplace (CO2008Z)

Content

This unit begins to transition you from student to practitioner. However, to be an effective counsellor, and to have longevity in the profession, one needs good self-care. Over the next eight weeks students will have the opportunity to consider various self-care options and experience which are best suited to their circumstances. Students will also be introduced to professional practice in a variety of ways, begin to work more independently of their teachers, and begin to form their own professional networks. In doing so students will be well prepared to commence supervised counselling practice in the third year of their degree.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

Offering: This unit is to be taught in year 2, semester 2 (term 4).
Prerequisites: CO1002Z Self, Profession, And Society; CO1005Z Introduction To Counselling; CO2007Z Counselling Ethics, The Law, And Best-Practice. Prohibited combinations: CO1007Z Introduction To Psychology

Pedagogy

Andragogy. Intensive format over 8 weeks. The compulsory intensive will be 29 hours in duration over four consecutive days held in week 5. Mornings and afternoons may be face-to-face. The intensive will include 6 hours of professional supervision. The remaining 7 weeks will utilise a variety of asynchronous on-line learning and professional activities (e.g., non-therapeutic workplace visits, professional development activities, ACA events etc.). Ad hoc additional professional supervision may be used as appropriate.

Indicative Bibliography

1. Hinz, L. (2019). Beyond self-care for helping professionals: The Expressive Therapies Continuum and the Life Enrichment Model. Routledge.
2. Hughes, G. (2014). Competence and self-care in counselling and psychotherapy. Routledge. [TEXTBOOK]
3. Pelling, N. & Armstrong, P. (Eds.; n.d.). The Practice of Counselling and Clinical Supervision (2nd edition). Australian Academic Press.
4. Pipher, M. (2016). Letters to a young therapist. Little Brown.
5. Yalom, I. (2003). The gift of therapy: An open letter to a new generation of therapists and their patients. Piatkus.
6. Yalom, I. (2013). Love’s executioner: And other tales of psychotherapy. Penguin.

Assessment