Human Development, Personality and Identity (CO2001Z)

Content

Counsellors see clients in every stage of life. Be they children, adolescents, adults, or elderly persons. Counsellors also see clients with altered developmental trajectories. Therefore, to have a comprehensive and multi-facetted knowledge of human lifespan development is essential for professional practice. Issues of personality development and expression will also be explored in detail leading to an understanding of identity. Ultimately, students will come to see how the practice of counselling provides an environment in which a client’s identity may become more integrated leading to an adaptive way of being.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

Offering: This unit is to be taught in year 2, semester 1 (term 1).
Prerequisites: CO1007Z Introduction To Psychology Prohibited combinations: NA

Pedagogy

Scaffolded learning In practice: This is a collaborative way of learning that takes note of the learner’s zone of proximal development (ZPD). By repeatedly extending the learner’s ZPD they develop a comprehensive and integrated system of knowledge/skills. Scaffolded learning is achieved through the provision of online modules which clearly guide a student’s learning; through activities of increased complexity during intensives; by face-to-face seminars which are tailored to induce academic/professional growth in an ordered and coherent way; and by assessments which not only seek to identify that key knowledge/skills have been learnt, but that the student is developing an integrated understanding of counselling.

Indicative Bibliography

1. Assange, J. (2011). Julian Assange: The unauthorised autobiography. Text Publishing.
2. Cervone, D., & Pervin, L. (2019). Personality: Theory and research: 14th Australia & New Zealand edition. Wiley.
3. Chang, J., & Halliday, J. (2005). Mao: The unknown story. Jonathan Cape.
4. Felix, A. (2005). Condi: The Condoleeza Rice story. Zondervan.
5. Harry, Duke of Sussex. (2023). Spare. Penguin.
6. Hoess, R. (1985). Commandant of Auschwitz. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
7. Huppatz, K., Hawkins, M., & Matthews, A. (2015). Identity and belonging. Bloomsbury.
8. Santrock, J. (2023). A topical approach to life-span development (11th edition). McGraw-Hill.
9. Snowden, E. (2019). Permanent record. Pan Books.
10. Thatcher, M. (1995). Margaret Thatcher: The Downing Street Years. Harper Collins.
11. Trump, M. (2020). Too much and never enough: How my family created the world’s most dangerous man. Simon & Schuster.
12. Yochim, B., & Woodhead, E. (Eds.; 2018). Psychology of aging. Springer Publishing Company.

Textbook is: Santrock, J. (2023). A topical approach to life-span development (11th edition). McGraw-Hill.

Assessment