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COU8006 Group Counselling Process and Practice

Semester 2, 2021 External
Short Description: Group Counsel Process Prac
Units : 1
Faculty or Section : Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences
School or Department : School of Psychology and Counselling
Student contribution band : 2021 Grandfather Funding Cl 1
ASCED code : 090513 - Counselling
Grading basis : Graded

Staffing

Examiner: Fiona O'Hara

Requisites

Pre-requisite: Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GCCO or GDCN or MCCO or PDEV or GCHH or GDHH or MOHH

Rationale

Counselling and counselling supervision often take place in groups. The group context provides unique potential and power as a medium for change. Facilitating groups such as these requires an understanding of the basic issues and concepts of group process, as well as the leadership skills to apply these concepts effectively in group work. The knowledge and skills acquired in this course are designed to address areas of competence specified in the professional accreditation standards for postgraduate counselling training and will be relevant to similar standards in most allied health disciplines.

This course contains a mandatory four-day residential school and 10 hours of mandatory online synchronous tutorials.

Synopsis

Successful psychoeducational, counselling and supervision groups are led by facilitators who have developed competencies in planning, listening, observing, and responding to group dynamics and process, and leading interventions. This course equips students with an understanding of the theoretical bases for group work and provides opportunity for students to learn about the process of a therapy group from beginning to end. In the first group of topics, the focus is on understanding the theory of group work, understanding the role of the group leader/s, and exploring ethical and legal issues in group counselling. The focus then shifts to understanding the group process. Finally, the course focuses on the application of group work in various settings.

This course contains a mandatory four-day residential school and 10 hours of mandatory online synchronous tutorials.

Objectives

On completion of this course students should be able to:

  1. Discuss various group types, formats and stages;
  2. Critically discuss ethical and professional issues in group counselling;
  3. Articulate understanding of the importance of cultural awareness in group facilitation;
  4. Critically review a group from both functional and process perspectives;
  5. Develop and demonstrate foundational skills as a group facilitator and reflect on level of preparedness to undertake this role;
  6. Reflect on and analyse a group process experience from a personal and conceptual perspective.

Topics

Description Weighting(%)
1. Introduction to Group Work: A Multicultural Perspective 10.00
2. The Group Counsellor 10.00
3. Ethical and Legal Issues in Group Counselling 10.00
4. Theories and Techniques of Group Counselling 10.00
5. Group Process: Stages of Development 50.00
6. Application of Group Process to Specific Settings (Schools and Community Agency) 10.00

Text and Materials

ALL textbooks and materials available to be purchased can be sourced from (unless otherwise stated). (https://omnia.usq.edu.au/textbooks/?year=2021&sem=02&subject1=COU8006)

Please for alternative purchase options from USQ Bookshop. (https://omnia.usq.edu.au/info/contact/)

Schneider-Corey, M., Corey, G. & Corey, C 2017, Groups: Processes and Practice, 10th edn, Brooks/Cole, Belmont, CA.

Reference Materials

Reference materials are materials that, if accessed by students, may improve their knowledge and understanding of the material in the course and enrich their learning experience.
Erford, B.T 2018, Group Work, Processes and Applications, 2nd edn, Pearson, Upper Saddle River, NJ.
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Forsyth, D.R. 2018, Group Dynamics, 7th edn, Wadsworth, Belmont, CA.
Kolb, D 2015, Experimental Learning, Experience as the Source of Learning and Development, 2nd edn, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Student Workload Expectations

Activity Hours
Assessments 50.00
Directed 精东传媒app 35.00
Online Tutorials 10.00
Private 精东传媒app 40.00
Residential Schools 30.00

Assessment Details

Description Marks out of Wtg (%) Due Date Notes
Online Quiz 100 20 13 Aug 2021
Group Analysis 100 30 13 Sep 2021
Skills Demo & Process Reflect 100 50 08 Oct 2021 (see note 1)
Attendance Requirements 1 22 Oct 2021 (see note 2)

Notes
  1. Skills Demonstration and Process Reflection
  2. Attendance is required at the scheduled residential school and online synchronous tutorials. The dates and location of the mandatory residential school are available from the Residential School Timetable (http://www.usq.edu.au/handbook/current/resschoolsched.html). The online synchronous tutorials schedule will be made available on the Course 精东传媒appDesk site.

Important assessment information

  1. Attendance requirements:
    Students must attend at least 80% of the mandatory residential school and online synchronous tutorials. Students who are unable to complete the mandatory residential school because of Compassionate and Compelling Circumstances may be eligible to defer that Assessment Item in accordance with the Assessment Procedure (point 4.4).

  2. Requirements for students to complete each assessment item satisfactorily:
    To satisfactorily complete the attendance requirements, students must attend at least 80% of the mandatory residential school and online synchronous tutorials in order to achieve a mark of 1 out of 1 for this assessment item. To complete the remaining assessment items satisfactorily students should aim to achieve at least 50% of the marks for that item.

  3. Penalties for late submission of required work:
    Students should refer to the Assessment Procedure (point 4.2.4)

  4. Requirements for student to be awarded a passing grade in the course:
    To be assured of receiving a passing grade a student must attend and achieve a mark of 1 out of 1 for the mandatory residential school and the online synchronous tutorials and achieve at least 50% of the total weighted marks available for the course.

  5. Method used to combine assessment results to attain final grade:
    The final grades for students will be assigned based on the aggregate of the weighted marks obtained for each of the summative items for the course.

  6. Examination information:
    NO EXAM: There is no exam in this course.

  7. Examination period when Deferred/Supplementary examinations will be held:
    Deferred and Supplementary examinations will be held in accordance with the Assessment Procedure .

  8. 精东传媒app Student Policies:
    Students should read the USQ policies: Definitions, Assessment and Student Academic Misconduct to avoid actions which might contravene 精东传媒app policies and practices. These policies can be found at .

Assessment Notes

  1. Students must familiarise themselves with the USQ Assessment Procedures (.

  2. APA style is the referencing system required in this course. Students must use 7th edition APA style in their assignments to format details of the information sources they have cited in their work. The APA style to be used is defined by the USQ Library's referencing guide. .

  3. Reliable access to the internet is a requirement of this course as the course contains electronic submission elements. Students who knowingly do not have reliable access to the internet should actively seek alternative internet access (e.g., Internet cafes, local libraries, or workplaces) for assessment. All students can use the on-campus student computer laboratories once access has been enabled. To be granted access, external students need to contact ICT and ask to have a student account enabled so that they can work on-campus.

Evaluation and Benchmarking

In meeting the 精东传媒app鈥檚 aims to establish quality learning and teaching for all programs, this course monitors and ensures quality assurance and improvements in at least two ways. This course: conforms to the USQ Policy on Evaluation of Teaching, Courses and Programs to ensure ongoing monitoring and systematic improvement. The course forms part of the GCCO, GDCN, MCCO and is benchmarked against the internal USQ accreditation/reaccreditation processes which include (i) stringent standards in the independent accreditation of its academic programs, (ii) close integration between business and academic planning, and (iii) regular and rigorous review.

Other Requirements

  1. Computer, e-mail and Internet access:
    Students are required to have access to a personal computer, e-mail capabilities and Internet access to UConnect. Current details of computer requirements can be found at .

  2. Students can expect that questions in assessment items in this course may draw upon knowledge and skills that they can reasonably be expected to have acquired before enrolling in this course. This includes knowledge contained in pre-requisite courses and appropriate communication, information literacy, analytical, critical thinking, problem solving or numeracy skills. Students who do not possess such knowledge and skills should not expect the same grades as those students who do possess them.

Date printed 8 November 2021