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REHB5911: Rehabilitation Counselling I
2022 unit information
This unit provides the foundation for student identification with the profession of Rehabilitation Counselling and acquisition of basic knowledge and specific skills central to counselling in the context of rehabilitation. Students will study the philosophical origins of the profession, its evolving scope of practice, the utility of counsellingtheory and the evidence base of counselling practice. They will reconcile their generic counselling aspirations with the community-based, person/familiy-centred, solution-focused, and strengths-based social justice framework of rehabilitation counselling. The primary thrust of the unit is micro-skills acquisition and development. Upon completion the successful student will have full awareness of and nascent proficiency in caseconceptualisation, clinical reasoning, developing a working alliance, communication, problem solving, reflective practice, and basic counselling techniques.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Participation Sciences
| Code | REHB5911 |
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| Academic unit | Participation Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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REHB5043 or REHB5076 |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. apply the role and relationships of a value driven rehabilitation counselling profession in Australia and the Australasian region through rehabilitation counselling philosophy of science and practice, its ethical canon, and its history
- LO2. identify ethical problems and engage ethical decision-making protocol
- LO3. integrate counselling theory themes into a rehabilitation counselling-specific model
- LO4. have developed basic micro-skill knowledge and performance capacity within a nascent professional identity
- LO5. understand cultural competency as a feature of counselling practice and its specific importance in serving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
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