| CODE | COU5401 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Skills in Vocational Guidance and Counselling for Career Guidance Practitioners | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Counselling | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit covers the nature and purpose of counselling in one to one counselling settings, the role of the counsellor, counsellor attitudes and qualities, client centered therapy based on humanistic school and Carl Rogers’ theory, stages and dynamics of counselling, with reference to Gerard Egan’s model. Counselling skills will be practiced in group sessions and supplemented with role-play of counselling sessions on video. Study-Unit Outline: • What is vocational guidance? What is counselling? • The counselling relationship; • The humanistic school of thought and Carl Rogers; • The qualities, attitudes and beliefs of the counsellor; • The helping model and skills: attending, pacing, summarising, basic empathy, probing, advanced empathy, challenging, feedback, goal planning; • Skills translation in vocational guidance and career counselling; • Case studies in vocational guidance and career counselling; • Ethics and other issues. Study-unit Aims: The aim of this study-unit is to provide students with the opportunity to develop confidence and skills to apply basic principles of helping in vocational guidance and career counselling situations. This study-unit aims to encourage the acquisition of basic skills including empathy, probing, advanced empathy, giving feedback, challenging, goal setting, self awareness, opportunity awareness, decision making and transition learning. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • Identify situations which require a helping outcome; • Distinguish situations which call for either a vocational guidance or career counselling situation; • Describe different helping theories and skills. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • Apply basic helping skills including empathy, attending, pacing and challenging; • Use skills in triadic learning groups; • Apply self awareness skills, opportunity awareness skills, decision making skills and transition learning skills. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: • Patterson, L.E., & Welfel, E.R. [1997] The Counselling Process. CA: Brooks and Cole • Egan, G. [all editions] The Skilled Helper • Brammer, L.M. & Macdonald, G. [1996] The Helping Relationship: Process and Skills. Boston: Allyn and Bacon |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Dione Mifsud |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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