COUNS541-21X (BLK)

Counselling Skills

30 Points

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Division of Education
Te Kura Toi Tangata School of Education

Staff

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Convenor(s)

Elmarie Kotze

Elmarie Kotze
7961
TL.2.14
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elmarie.kotze@waikato.ac.nz

Lecturer(s)

Jenny Snowdon

Jenny Snowdon
7845
TL.2.02
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jenny.snowdon@waikato.ac.nz

Paul Flanagan

Paul Flanagan
7728
TL.2.01
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paul.flanagan@waikato.ac.nz

Wendy Talbot

Wendy Talbot
6657
TL.2.13
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wendy.talbot@waikato.ac.nz

Administrator(s)

: jinah.lee@waikato.ac.nz

Placement/WIL Coordinator(s)

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Student Representative(s)

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Librarian(s)

: melanie.chivers@waikato.ac.nz

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Paper Description

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This paper contributes to the counselling programme as a whole by providing the opportunity for students to develop competence in the relationship skills and narrative practices of counselling.
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Paper Structure

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The domains of learning are:

On campus classes (see below for details)

On line discussions (see details in Moodle)

Practicum placement and practice supervision

Professional practice consultation with University staff

Assignments and feedback (formative /summative)

The purpose of this paper is to enable student counsellors to develop a repertoire of counselling skills and practices. The skills build on the student counsellor's existing communication style. The counselling skills can be used in a variety of contexts.

Students will learn a narrative approach to counselling. This approach is underpinned by a social constructionist framework and draws on post-structuralism and positioning theory. Students will practice counselling skills in a class setting where they will engage with feedback about this practice from staff and colleagues. Students will explore how problem-related issues and lifespan-related themes all contribute to the work of counselling.

This paper focuses on the following:

  1. first introductions and meetings with clients, opening a space for therapeutic conversations; an overview of narrative conversations; developing and shaping listening and attending skills; curiosity and discursive empathy; deconstructive questioning; externalising conversations; re-authoring and remembering conversations; reflecting and outsider witnessing team conversations
  2. placement practicum; supervision; recording, note taking and documentation
  3. aspects of dominant stories in people’s live such as grief, depression, violence, sexual abuse, mental health and illness
  4. counselling ethics; NZAC Code of Ethics and the legislative context of counselling.
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Learning Outcomes

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Students who successfully complete the paper should be able to:

  • engage with clients
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  • establish and build a counselling relationship
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  • demonstrate refined listening skills
    Key points:
    • attentive listening
    • deconstructive listening
    • radical listening
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  • demonstrate externalising conversations and re-authoring conversations
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  • demonstrate refined questioning practice

    Key points:

    • deconstruct discursive contexts and the positioning these have in a client's life
    • use of relational language to engage in externalising conversations
    • a repertoire of landscape of action questions
    • a repertoire of landscape of identity/meaning questions
    • develop questioning practice in outsider witness groups – as the person being interviewed, the interviewer and/or an outsider witness
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  • respond to new developments in a client’s life
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  • co-author a preferred story with clients
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  • construct letter writing practice
    (in supervision with supervisor and limited opportunity during class exercise)
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  • engage in remembering conversations, consulting a consultant and taking-it-back practices
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Assessment

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All assessments are compulsory.

Assessments will contain confidential material.

NZAC Code of Ethics apply.

Also read Ethical and Academic Guidelines available on Moodle.

While students may be encouraged to approach Student Learning Support for assistance with writing in other papers, the assessments in this professional paper contain confidential material which must not be taken beyond programme staff.

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Assessment Components

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The internal assessment/exam ratio (as stated in the University Calendar) is 100:0. There is no final exam. The final exam makes up 0% of the overall mark.

The internal assessment/exam ratio (as stated in the University Calendar) is 100:0 or 0:0, whichever is more favourable for the student. The final exam makes up either 0% or 0% of the overall mark.

Component DescriptionDue Date TimePercentage of overall markSubmission MethodCompulsory
1. Assessment 1
4 Mar 2021
5:00 PM
15
  • Online: Submit through Moodle
✔
2. Assessment 2
18 May 2021
5:00 PM
30
  • Other: Assessment to be mailed to Elmarie.
✔
3. Assessment 3
9 Jul 2021
5:00 PM
5
  • Online: Submit through Moodle
✔
4. Assessment 4a
5 May 2021
5:00 PM
7.5
  • Online: Submit through Moodle
✔
5. Assessment 4b
11 Oct 2021
5:00 PM
7.5
  • Online: Submit through Moodle
✔
6. Assessment 5
7 Oct 2021
5:00 PM
35
  • Other: Assessment to be mailed to Elmarie
✔
7. Assessment 6
2 Nov 2021
5:00 PM
0
  • Other: To be mailed to Elmarie
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Assessment Total:     100    
Failing to complete a compulsory assessment component of a paper will result in an IC grade
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Required and Recommended Readings

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Required Readings

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Crocket, K., Agee, M., & Cornforth, S. (2011). Ethics in practice. A guide for counsellors. Wellington, New Zealand: Dunmore.

Ludbrook, R. (2012). Counselling and the law (2nd ed.). Wellington, New Zealand: Dunmore.

Morgan, A. (2000). What is narrative therapy? An easy-to-read introduction. Adelaide, Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications.

New Zealand Association of Counsellors. (2002). Code of Ethics. Hamilton, New Zealand: Author.

White, M. (2007). Maps of narrative practice. New York: Norton.

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Recommended Readings

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Bird, J. (2004). Talk that sings. Therapy in a new linguistic key. Auckland, New Zealand: Edge Press.

Freedman, J., & Combs, G. (1996). Narrative Therapy: The social construction of preferred realities. New York: Norton.

Freeman, J., Epston, D., & Lobovits, D. (1997). Playful approaches to serious problems. Narrative therapy with children and their families. New York: Norton.

Jenkins, A. (1990). Invitation to responsibility. The therapeutic engagement of men who are violent and abusive. Adelaide, Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications.

White, M. (1995). Narratives of therapists’ lives. Adelaide, Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications.

White, M., & Epston, D. (1990). Narrative means to therapeutic ends. New York: Norton.

Winslade, J., & Monk G. (1999). Narrative counselling in schools: Powerful and brief. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Dulwich Centre Friday afternoons (http://narrativetherapyonline.com/moodle/course/view.php?id=16)

Recordings that may be relevant for the developing of narrative practices:

  • Using narrative ideas in supervision by Hugh Fox from Institute of Narrative Therapy, UK
  • ‘The written word and narrative practice’ by David Newman

MCouns and PhD research on research commons: http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/

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Online Support

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Students will have access to Moodle.
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Workload

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Practicum placement 220 hours

On campus classes 63 hours

Professional development consultation 10 hours

Moodle discussions - 8 Topics

Assignments

Documentation - contracts, recording of practice hours and supervision and final reports

Reading material

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Linkages to Other Papers

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Prerequisite(s)

Prerequisite papers: HDCO544 or COUNS544

Corequisite(s)

Equivalent(s)

Restriction(s)

Restricted papers: HDCO541

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