Unit Code: PBH601

Unit Name: Counselling for Health Professionals

Description: Counselling is an important element in helping people who encounters biopsychosocial problems, helping clients in rehabilitation to achieve the people’s wellbeing. Due to the many problems that we have in the Pacific, this course will increase students’ awareness on the field of counselling, including its evolution, processes, theories and specialties. Counselling skills help the future health professional to empower patients or clients to manage their problems more effectively. You will get to explore many facets of counselling; learn to identify which counselling strategy they are comfortable with, and which are inevitably adopt as part of the nature of their practice in the future. This course will help enable you to apply the counselling skills acquired to different health settings, according to your expertise.

Learning Target Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: PBH601.1: Explain counselling concepts, models, theories in psychological approaches, principles, and the “oneself” model in counselling. PBH601.2 Demonstrate interpersonal communication, counselling skills, and identify problems to support clients effectively. PBH601.3: Develop self-reflection for self-improvement and demonstrate the ethical framework in counselling practice. PBH601.4: Demonstrate counselling skills, including pair activities to apply knowledge and skills effectively. PBH601.5: Evaluate and support clients using counselling principles, theories, and ethical standards to enhance counselling effectiveness.

Prerequisite: N/A

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 1