Child and Adolescent: Theories and Techniques of Counselling

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Implement and reflect upon a range of basic counselling skills for working with children and adolescents, including appropriate use of engagement skills, open and closed questions, reflective listening, paraphrasing and summarising, clarifying and silence;
2. Analyse and assess the fundamental theory and intervention practices of the therapeutic paradigms covered in this unit; and
3. Exhibit a foundation level of competence in formulating counselling-based assessment and intervention plans when working with children and adolescents.