These assignments are designed to assist students in their reflective practice, giving them the opportunity to reflect on the professional experience and the ways in which the theory and skills units have informed that practice.
Personal Counselling: Students are required to engage in personal counselling as they progress through the course, and submit a logbook of: • 10 hours of personal counselling for Graduate Diploma students • 20 hours of personal counselling for Masters students. PACFA requires 20 hours of personal counselling for graduate membership status. Opportunities to complete these hours are provided in COMH412 Attachment and Interpersonal Processes, and COMH501 Group Counselling.
Tuition Assurance To protect students in the event that Wesley Institute ceases to provide a course of study, the Institute has tuition assurance through its membership of the TAFE Directors Australia Tuition Assurance Scheme for Australian students and the Council of Private Higher Education Tuition Assurance Scheme for international students. For details please see Tuition Assurance
Unit Descriptions Counselling Skills and Practice I
COMH401 Prerequisites: None Christian counsellors require a foundation of core counsellor qualities and skills on which to build their repertoire of therapeutic interventions. This unit is designed to help students demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of the task of counselling as a problem-management and opportunity-development process. The unit addresses foundational levels of professional competence required for effective counselling practice. Successful completion of this unit should enable students to acquire the basic skills essential to the delivery of mental health counselling.
Counselling and Personality
COMH402 Prerequisites: None Facilitating change in counselling requires considerable knowledge of both personality and psychopathology. Students in this unit will be introduced to major theoretical perspectives on personality and psychopathology, and will learn to conceptualise client problems and make treatment decisions based on these perspectives. Students will also be provided a forum in which to reflect, in an appropriate, supervised environment, on the makeup of their own personality.
Professional Ethics and Orientation
COMH403 Prerequisites: None This unit is designed to explore the counsellor’s understanding of what constitutes ethical counselling practice and the complexity of the relevant legal regulations. Students will reflect on their worldviews, values and approaches to professional
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