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.

Pedagogy

Andragogy In practice: Students will have the opportunity to engage issues which interest them, reflect on their own lives, engage in problem-based learning, and actively take part in the learning process. These aspects of Andragogy are reflected in online self-directed learning which includes both personal reflections and activities. Students will also participate in online seminars or attend an in-person intensive. The intention of seminars/intensives is to stimulate conversation to promote active learning. Activities undertaken during intensives are also designed to promote problem-based learning. Although dependent upon the year level at which a unit is offered, assessments provide students with the opportunity to consider problems in new ways and so enhance their ability to describe and/or apply knowledge, analyse information, as well as to synthesise/create new knowledge.

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.
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.

Textbook is: Hughes, G. (2014). Competence and self-care in counselling and psychotherapy. Routledge.

Assessment