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BACH2143: Counselling and Behaviour Management for CD

2025 unit information

Students will acquire skills and knowledge of basic and advanced counselling, psychotherapeutic and behaviour management skills as they are used by students and professionals in health sciences working with individuals with communication and swallowing needs.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Medicine and Health

Study level Undergraduate
Academic unit Communication Sciences
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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None
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. describe successful and unsuccessful counselling techniques
  • LO2. understand and contrast different models and theories of counselling
  • LO3. demonstrate counselling and interviewing skills
  • LO4. demonstrate the core values of health and therapeutic counselling
  • LO5. understand the principles of learning that underpin behaviour management techniques
  • LO6. demonstrate knowledge of different behaviour management techniques used in behavioural change
  • LO7. demonstrate knowledge of the appropriateness of different management techniques across a range of clinical situations.

Unit availability

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2024
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2025
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 Early 2020
Normal day Cumberland, Sydney
Semester 2 2021
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2021
Normal day Remote
Semester 2 2022
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2023
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

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