Clinical Supervision and Work Place Experience
Overview
This Unit allows students to develop their counselling skills with clients in their chosen specialisation by providing counselling and/or participating in decision-making around treatment for clients within a real agency setting. In the couple counselling stream, students will be able to participate in a reflective supervision team in order to enhance their understanding of couple counselling theory, practice and application. Students in the human services and forensic counselling streams will develop competencies in working with clients in a community agency using counselling microskills and evidence-based practice under supervision.
Requisites
PSC60004 Ethics and Cultural Diversity for Counsellors
PSC60001 Foundations of Counselling
PSC70023 Couple Counselling Practice and Application
PSC70007 Couple Counselling Theory
Rules
Pre-requisite
PSC70008 Advanced Counselling
AND
PSC60004 Ethics and Cultural Diversity for Counsellors
AND
PSC60001 Foundations of Counselling
OR
PSC70023 Couple Counselling Practice and Application
AND
HAYR452 - Couple Counselling Practice
OR
PSC70007 Couple Counselling Theory
01-June-2025
02-November-2025
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Identify the strengths and limitations of using different models of supervision in their chosen specialisation
- Identify and apply evidence-based and best-practice approaches to client work and supervision in their chosen specialisation
- Collaboratively reflect on client work during supervision in order to enhance and guide clinical decisions that benefit client treatment and wellbeing
- Design an evidence-based clinical case formulation and treatment plan in their chosen specialisation
- Reflect on their practice and communicate their thinking regarding the presenting problems, case formulations and treatment plans to other professionals in oral and written format
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Face to Face Contact (Phasing out) Workshop | 3.00 | 12 weeks | 36 |
| Face to Face Contact (Phasing out) Other | 5.83 | 12 weeks | 70 |
| Specified Learning Activities (Phasing out) Readings | 2.00 | 12 weeks | 24 |
| Specified Learning Activities (Phasing out) Various | 1.25 | 12 weeks | 15 |
| Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out) Independent Learning | 7.50 | 12 weeks | 90 |
| Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out) Independent Learning | 5.42 | 12 weeks | 65 |
| TOTAL | 300 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional Experience Portfolio | Individual | 100% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
Content
- Observation of, and/or participation in, counselling within their chosen area of specialisation (couple counselling and human services stream)
- Development of a collaborative treatment plan that is relevant to the needs of a couple and informed by couple counselling theory and evidence-based practice (couple counselling stream)
- Team and individual reflection and discussion (couple counselling stream)
- Supervision for client work (individual and group) in a relevant community agency
- Case notes (human services stream)
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.