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156 weeks
On Campus and Online. International students may study up to one-third of the subjects in a course online. Domestic students may study the full course online.
Full time / Part time / On Campus / Online · Full-time: 8 subjects per year (3 trimesters of 11 weeks teaching + assessment week). Part-time: 4 subjects per year. Approximately 3 hours lectures/tutorials plus 10 hours per week self-directed study per subject.
February | May | September
Course Overview
Where You Can Study
Adelaide
Level 3, 127 Rundle Mall, Adelaide, SA 5000
Eligibility
Career & Study Pathways
Quality & Recognition
Academic Regulator
TEQSA
Professional Body
Australian Counselling Association (ACA) / PACFA
Accreditation Status
AccreditedSkills Assessor
ACA / PACFA
Course Content
Integrative Psychotherapy in Theory
Sets the foundation for knowledge and skills in counselling and integrative arts therapy practice, introducing a comprehensive theoretical framework encompassing person-centred and experiential psychotherapy, Eastern and Indigenous practices and psychodynamic interpersonal therapy.
Integrative Psychotherapy in Practice
Focuses on building essential knowledge and core skills required for counselling and therapeutic practice through one-to-one therapeutic interactions with peers.
Models of Contemporary Practice
Develops understanding of the main theoretical perspectives and models that influence therapeutic practice, covering psychodynamic, humanistic-existential, cognitive behavioural, transpersonal, post-modern and integrative schools.
Ethics in Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice
Develops awareness and understanding of the ethical and legal issues critical to counselling and psychotherapy practice, including ethical principles, theories, frameworks and relevant legislation.
Mental Health and Crisis Management
Explores the varied experiences of consumers using mental health services in Australia, the DSM classification system, and skills to effectively respond to clients in mental health crises.
Embracing Culture, Diversity and Inclusion
Explores ethical foundations of individual worldviews and develops knowledge, skills and awareness required to engage in ethical and culturally mindful therapeutic practices.
Case Conceptualisation
Introduces the practice of case conceptualisation in clinical settings, guiding treatment planning and interventions with an emphasis on short-term treatment planning.
Supervised Practice A
First of two professional experience subjects providing opportunity to apply theoretical and reflective learning to counselling and psychotherapy practice through 120 placement hours at a host organisation.
Life Span Development
Explores key issues, theories, and methods in developmental psychology and life span development using an interdisciplinary approach examining life development from evolutionary and cultural perspectives.
Trauma Informed Practice
Introduces core concepts and principles of trauma-informed practice, exploring different types of trauma and how to recognise causal factors, impacts, emotion dysregulation and trauma symptoms across various populations.
Understanding Systems in Psychotherapy
Takes a systems perspective to psychotherapy, focusing on how people interact with their environment, covering ecosystems, family systems, couple systems and individual psycho-biological systems.
Integrative Treatment Skills
Focuses on the stages and phases of therapeutic practice, integrating core advanced skills into effective integrative therapeutic practice including setting treatment goals and managing emotional clusters.
Group Work Process
Explores the theory and practice of group work in counselling and psychotherapy, including how to lead and engage in support groups, psychoeducation groups and therapeutic groups.
Treatment of Grief and Loss in Psychotherapy
Develops a sound understanding of clinical processes involved in addressing grief, loss and bereavement in psychotherapy, including complicated grief, childhood bereavement and continued bonds.
Narrative, Identity and Integrative Processes
Explores core concepts and practices focused on self perception, agency, autonomy, identity and narrative within psychotherapy using an interdisciplinary approach.
Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy
Provides an introduction to psychodynamic psychotherapy using the evidence-based approach of psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy, including the conversational model.
Culturally Responsive Therapeutic Practice with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Supports students to develop ethical, reflexive, and culturally responsive practices when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients through experiential learning, critical self-inquiry, narrative and creative processes.
Experiential Processes in Psychotherapy
Introduces focusing-oriented psychotherapy, an experiential therapeutic process, developing hands-on experience in facilitating client inner processing and resulting changes in states of consciousness.
The Body in the Treatment of Trauma
Builds on Trauma Informed Practice to extend understanding of theories and practices in trauma-focused and somatic-informed psychotherapy, including the neurobiology of trauma and multiphasic treatment approaches.
Common Questions
The course includes 2 supervised placement experiences totalling 360 hours. The first placement (Supervised Practice A) requires 120 hours at a host organisation, where students apply theoretical and reflective learning to counselling and psychotherapy practice.
Yes, the Bachelor of Counselling and Psychotherapy is accredited by the Australian Counselling Association (ACA), the leading industry body for counsellors in Australia. Upon graduation, students will be eligible for Level 2 ACA membership, with opportunities to progress in membership levels as they gain professional development and experience.
The indicative domestic course fee for the Bachelor of Counselling and Psychotherapy is $65,400 for the 3-year full-time programme. The course is FEE-HELP approved for eligible domestic applicants. Please note that some elective subjects held offsite may incur additional fees for accommodation and travel expenses.
Domestic students may study the full course online. International students may study up to one-third of the subjects in the course online. The course is available at campus locations in Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, as well as fully online for domestic students.
Students must successfully complete 23 subjects totalling 144 credit points. The academic year is structured into three trimesters, each consisting of 11 weeks of teaching followed by an assessment week. Full-time students typically complete 8 subjects per year, while part-time students typically complete 4 subjects per year. For each subject, students should allocate approximately 3 hours for lectures and tutorials, plus approximately 10 hours per week per subject for self-directed study.
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