Students get to cultivate knowledge and skills that meet the growing demand for mental health and wellbeing services, as well as transferable skills in research and critical thinking increasingly sought after by employers globally. The course utilises a broad range of teaching and learning strategies providing students with an immersive experience. For example, students will be given opportunities to develop their core counselling skills in several different ways (e.g., peer-to-peer role play, use of actors as mock clients and simulated scenarios). This course is taught using a mixture of lectures, group seminars and practical, ‘hands-on’ skills workshops. Core course content will be delivered during the lectures, while seminars and workshops offer opportunities for them to explore topics more independently, receive guidance on coursework assignments, begin to apply their knowledge and develop their academic, transferable skills and core counselling skills.
Students will have the opportunity to take part in the design, conduct and analysis of psychological experiments, and spend time working collaboratively on group projects with other students.
