Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Narrative Approaches for Career Counselling
Credit Points: 12.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
HWSS2195 |
Bundoora Campus |
Postgraduate |
360H Education |
Internet |
Sem 1 2012, Sem 2 2012, Sem 1 2013, Sem 2 2013, Sem 1 2014, Sem 2 2014, Sem 1 2015, Sem 2 2015, Sem 1 2016, Sem 2 2016, Sem 1 2017, Sem 2 2017, Sem 1 2018, Sem 2 2018, Sem 1 2019 |
HWSS2242 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
360H Education |
Internet |
Sem 1 2020, Sem 2 2020, Sem 2 2021, Sem 2 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 2 2023, Sem 1 2024, Sem 2 2024, Sem 1 2025 |
Flexible Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
HWSS2242 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
360H Education |
Internet |
PGRDFlex21 (ZZZZ), PGRDFlex21 (All) |
Course Coordinator: Kathleen Gregory
Course Coordinator Phone: by email
Course Coordinator Email: kathleen.gregory@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: By appointment
Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None
Course Description
In this course you will examine narrative career counselling as a practice that places an emphasis on the client-counsellor relationship. You will examine the approaches underpinning narrative career counselling originating from the pioneering work of Michael White and David Epston (1990). Through participating in this course, you will gain insight into the broadly based philosophies of counselling approaches founded in constructionist theories and life design approaches. You will develop knowledge of counselling processes and gain skills through the exploration and application of counselling theories and models, with an emphasis on the narrative counselling approach.
This course includes required participation in an on-line Counselling Skills Workshop where you will work in small groups to gain practical supervised experience as a counsellor. You will be able to choose from a number of Workshop options to complete this requirement.
The Counselling Skills Workshop is equivalent to a work integrated learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/or community is integral to your experience.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
Program Learning Outcomes
Develop theoretical and technical knowledge in careers practice, employability solutions and life design
Apply design strategies and narrative career counselling in conjunction with CICA professional competencies to develop client focussed outcomes
Apply knowledge and skills to demonstrate autonomy, ethical practice, well-developed judgement, adaptability and responsibility as a practitioner or learner
Professionally communicate with clients, colleagues and the broader community
Upon successfully completing this course you will be able to:
1. Evaluate ethical considerations for career counselling practice and operates within an appropriate Code of Ethics
2. Define a counselling relationship and demonstrate an understanding of concepts and constructs appropriate in counselling with an emphasis on narrative career counselling.
3. Develop and demonstrate advanced communication skills, e.g., reflective listening, questioning
4. Describe and explain major counselling theories and models and consider how these apply in practice.
5. Describe and apply a Narrative approach to counselling and analyse the impact of narrative agency and context on practice.
Overview of Learning Activities
Learning activities include:
- Engagement in online learning activities including discussions, activities and webinars
- Review of relevant literature
- Self-directed research on topics linked to assessment tasks
- Reflection and analysis of your practice in terms of how it relates to professional standards
Overview of Learning Resources
RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.
The University Library has extensive resources for Education students. The Library has produced a number of subject guides that includes quality online and print resources for your studies
[https://rmit.libguides.com/careers]
The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help via your Liaison Librarians.
Overview of Assessment
You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes.
Assessment Tasks:
1. Structured Evaluation of a Counselling Interview (600-800 words or equivalent).
Linked Course Learning Outcomes: 1,2, and 3
2. Reflection on Practice - Live counselling session and reflection on learning (800-1000 words).
Linked Course Learning Outcomes: 1,2,3,4, and 5.
Assignments are unweighted, Pass/Fail only. Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks. All assessment tasks need to be successfully completed to pass this course.
If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.
Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.