Cross Cultural Counselling
This unit provides a conceptual framework and skills for cross cultural counselling. It addresses the particular needs of counselling clients of different backgrounds in Australia's multicultural society. Students are expected to develop cross cultural sensitivity and awareness of issues as well as effective skills and strategies for cross cultural counselling.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify the concepts and basic issues in cultural diversity in Australia
- Demonstrate an understanding of cross cultural issues for counselling
- Identify cross cultural counselling issues
- Demonstrate an understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues for counselling
- Use cross cultural counselling skills
Content Areas
- Cultural Diversity
- Cultural Identity: Formation and Change
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Cultural Bias – Values and the Counselling
- Social and Political Influences
- Indigenous Issues
- Cross Cultural Communication
- Interpreters, Resources and Translations
- Conflict Cultural Counselling Approaches and Techniques
- Culture and Illness
- Refugee Issues: Torture, Trauma, Loss and Resettlement
- Conflict Resolution in Cross-Cultural Work
Unit Duration and Workload
This unit involves a total of 36 hours of face to face delivery of self directed study including educator contact in flexible delivery modes, generating a further 54 hours of self-study per unit including research and related study activities, including assessment. This translates to 7.5 hours per week for the unit.