Working With Children, Adolescents, And Older Adults (CO2002Z)

Content

Counsellors typically work with a variety of clients, even if they specialise in a particular mental health problem. Therefore we have to know how to tailor our interventions accordingly. One important factor to consider when engaging a client is their age for there are particular ways of working with children, adolescents, and older adults. While CO2001Z Human Development, Personality, And Identity gave you a strong theoretical basis for working with clients across the lifespan this unit will give you the necessary counselling tools.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

Offering: This unit is to be taught in year 2, semester 1 (term 1).
Prerequisites: CO1005Z Introduction To Counselling; CO1007Z Introduction to Psychology Prohibited combinations: CO1002Z Self, Profession, And Society

Pedagogy

Scaffolded learning. Tutorial and Intensive format over 8 weeks. The compulsory intensive will be 29 hours in duration over four consecutive days held in week 6. Mornings will use synchronous on-line learning and afternoons will use activity-based face-to-face learning. The remaining 7 weeks will utilise weekly asynchronous on-line learning and 1 hour of synchronous on-line learning (i.e., non-compulsory tutorial).

Indicative Bibliography

1. Bryant-Jefferies, R. (2006). Counselling for death and dying: Person-centred dialogues. Taylor & Francis Ltd.
2. Geldard, K., Geldard, D., & Foo, R. (2017). Counselling children: A practical introduction (5th edition). Sage Publications, Inc.
3. Geldard, K., Geldard, D., & Foo, R. (2019). Counselling adolescents: The proactive approach for young people (5th edition). Sage Publications, Inc.
4. Juntunen, C., & Atkinson, D. (Eds.; 2015). Counseling across the lifespan: Prevention and treatment (2nd edition). SAGE Publications, Inc. [TEXTBOOK]
5. Kampfe, C. (2014). Counseling older people: Opportunities and challenges. Wiley.
6. Midgley, N., Hayes, J., & Cooper, M., (Eds.; 2017). Essential research findings in child and adolescent counselling and psychotherapy. Sage Publications, Inc.
7. Samuelson, E. (2019). Soaring above the ashes: Thriving beyond childhood sexual abuse. Otter Bay Books.

Assessment