Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Psychotherapy

Edith Cowan University

This course is designed for professionals who wish to acquire counselling skills for use in their work as health professionals social workers personnel officers pastors human service workers psychologists or counsellors The course provides training in counselling skills and theory and prepares graduates to develop a counselling role in the setting in which they workCourse learning outcomesCommunicate advanced specialised knowledge concepts and skills to work with individuals couples and family and contemporary settings by ethically integrating counselling and psychotherapy theoretical frameworksApply high level independent professional judgement when analysing and evaluating complex counsellingpsychotherapy case management problems to generate creative solutionsDemonstrate self management and reflective practice skills by initiating planning evaluating strategies and psychodynamic and systemic theoretical frameworks

School of Arts and Humanities

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