Sequencing and Structure


Graduate Diploma of Counselling (GDC16)

Year 1 Year 2

1. COUN5011 Counselling Skills 1

2. COUN5021 Conflict Management

3. BESC5011 Developmental Psychology

4. COUN5031 Counselling Skills 2
[Pre-requisite: Counselling Skills 1]

5. COUN5041 Counselling Methods 1
[Pre-requisite: Counselling Skills 1]

6. COUN5051 Counselling in Loss
[Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: Counselling Skills 2]

[EXIT POINT: GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN COUNSELLING SKILLS]

7. Student Placement  1
[Pre-requisite: Counselling Skills 2]. This unit is conducted over 2 consecutive Terms.
Students must formally enrol into this unit

8. BESC5021 Social, Legal and Ethical Issues
[Pre-requisite: Counselling Skills 2]

9. Elective 1*
[Pre-requisite: Counselling Skills 2]

10. COUN5071 Theory and Practice of Supervision
[Pre-requisite: Counselling Skills 2. Co-requisite: Student Placement with client contact hours and clinical supervision]

11. COUN5081 Counselling Methods 2
[Pre-requisite: Counselling Methods 1]

Student Placement 1 Continued

12. COUN5091 Mental Health Issues
[Pre-requisite: Counselling Methods 2]

13. Elective 2*
[Pre-requisite: Counselling Skills 2]

14. Student Placement 2 (Clinical)
[Pre-requisite: Student Placement  1 & Co-requisite Theory and Practice of Supervision unless already completed]
Students must formally enrol into this unit

15. COUN5111 Professional Development & Reflective Practice
[Pre-requisite: Counselling Methods 2; Social, Legal & Ethical Issues; Theory and Practice of Supervision]

Student Placement 2 Continued

16. COUN5121 Integrative Project
[Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: Professional Development & Reflective Practice]
Electives - pre-requisite: Counselling Skills 2

COUN5901 Alcohol and Other Drug Counselling  

COUN5921 Crisis Intervention

COUN5911 Cross Cultural Counselling

COUN5931 Existential Therapy 

COUN5941 Family and relationship Counselling

BESC5901 Groupwork, Theory and Practice

COUN5951 Trauma Counselling

COUN5961 Working with Adolescents

COUN5971 Working with Children

To view unit fees and equivalent full-time student load (EFTSL) values refer to http://www.acap.edu.au/costs.html

Unit availability is subject to demand.