Create a video recording that includes a reflective component. Conduct a simulated career counselling session with a volunteer client, focusing on a particular career issue, and apply relevant counselling methods. The recording should also feature a reflection discussion the use of microskills, theoretical frameworks, and counselling strategies, along with identifying opportunities for future skill enhancement and professional growth.

Online, low stake, multiple-choice, automatically graded assessment in week 3, focusing on content covered across the first three modules.

Conceptualisation - Compose an essay examining a chosen case from a provided selection, utilising a counselling approach to address a particular career-related issue.  Analyse the scenario through the perspective of a selected career counselling framework.  Include a reflection on the effectiveness of the approach and theory for diverse client populations and various professional settings in career practice.

To excel in career development services, career practitioners must possess counselling skills that facilitate client transformation. This subject provides students with the theoretical foundation and specific career counselling approaches, counselling microskills, and techniques aligned with various counselling approaches. This knowledge is developed in the context of contemporary career development theories and practice. Students will gradually learn how to develop case conceptualisations and apply appropriate counselling microskills and career counselling approaches.
The Career Counselling workshop, offered as part of the delivery of this subject, provides further opportunities to practice career counselling techniques across diverse client and career contexts. This interactive two-day workshop utilises the learning triad counselling approach which includes active learning and observational exercises, allowing students to develop and apply their skills to complex career counselling scenarios. The feedback that students receive during the workshop and throughout the course will enable them to develop the knowledge of the Career Industry Council of Australia (CICA) Professional Standards, including a specialised competency of applying career counselling skills and theoretically grounded career counselling modalities to diverse clients and their dissimilar needs.

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[Anti-requisite] ED5910 Offerings: All

Ability to produce both written and verbal work at a graduate level. Possession of strong academic literacies as required for the successful completion of the assessment tasks in this subject. Appropriate and adequate knowledge and skills to engage critically with assigned readings and activities. Possession of general digital skills to undertake studies in an online learning environment.

Ability to produce both written and verbal work at a graduate level. Possession of strong academic literacies as required for the successful completion of the assessment tasks in this subject. Appropriate and adequate knowledge and skills to engage critically with assigned readings and activities. Possession of general digital skills to undertake studies in an online learning environment. Offerings: All

106011 Graduate Certificate of Career Development, 113804 Master of Education

106011 Graduate Certificate of Career Development, 113804 Master of Education Offerings: All

ED5584 - Career Development Theories and Counselling Approaches in Practice

Career Development Theories and Counselling Approaches in Practice

Use various counselling microskills and culturally appropriate techniques to support diverse clients across career development contexts.

Develop cohesive and effective case conceptualisations and use career theories to develop a personal approach to career counselling.

Critically compare and analyse several foundational and contemporary counselling theoretical approaches, including Humanistic and Solution-Focused, Cognitive and Behavioural, and Constructivist in their application to diverse career concerns. 

Apply specialised communication techniques , advocacy and decision making strategies in a range of complex and diverse client and stakeholder contexts.