This unit aims to provide students with an advanced understanding of typical and atypical psychological development across the lifespan. Within the context of an introduction to the advanced therapeutic counselling process, students will learn to facilitate the cycle of effective intervention, behaviour analysis, and change. This unit comprises three sections: typical development, atypical development and behaviour change. Counselling areas (further advanced in EDF6512) include self-reflection, mentoring, establishing a professional relationship a professional relationship, appropriate communication, counselling, and specific intervention skills for children, adolescents, adults, elders... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr John Roodenburg
Prerequisites: Successful completion of an Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) accredited four year sequence in psychology and enrolment in MPsych (Educational and Developmental).
