Psychology & Counselling

Learn to understand and counsel psychological conditions. Develop your ability to analyse psychological conditions, and apply that knowledge in real world situations such as counselling or advisory roles.

Lesson Structure:Psychology & Counselling BPS102

There are 7 lessons:

1. Stress
2. Abnormal Behaviour
3. Individual Behaviour
4. Group Behaviour
5. Methods of Dealing with Abnormalities
6. Conflict Resolution
7. Interpersonal Communication Skills

Learning Goals:Psychology & Counselling BPS102

• Identify the nature of conflict and stress and why this issue affects so many people today.
• Identify and examine behaviours that are characterised as abnormal and compare and contrast these with behaviours characterised as healthy.
• Explain social influence on individual behaviour.
• Explain social influence on group behaviour.
• Describe alternative methods of dealing with psychological problems
• Develop skills for resolving conflict.
• Develop communication skills for counselling individuals.

Practicals:

• Find someone you know who you suspect has a type A personality.
• Talk to them to try to confirm if your suspicion is correct.
• Note (write down) the ways in which they appear to be a type A personality.
• Talk with someone who is suffering, or has suffered stress. This might be a friend, relative, work mate, or anyone else you are able to find. Discuss their stress with them (current or past). Don'€™t push them, but try to discern from what they are happy to tell you, whether their stress was (or is) chronic or acute.
• Consider conflict which occurs in either a workplace or recreation situation you are familiar with.
• This might be a place where you work, or a workplace you visit frequently (eg. A shop or office);or perhaps a sporting club, gymnasium or social group which you regularly attend. Make up a list of disputes or conflicts which you remember to have occurred in the past.
• Consider an individual in your life, or else a character in a film or book, who you regard as abnormal.
• Consider why they are abnormal.
• Write down a list of reasons you are able to identify.
• Which method or defining abnormality was influencing your judgement of this character
• Find a teenager who you can interview.
• This might be a person you know (a relative, work colleague, member of an organisation you belong to etc), or perhaps you might contact and visit a youth club or organisation that deals with teenagers and arrange to interview someone.
• The person needs to be someone who exhibits some type of deviant behaviour, even if not extreme. Most teenagers will at some stage exhibit behaviour that is a deviance from social norms (even if the behaviour is not a deviance from age or peer group norms).
• Interview this teenager for at least 15 minutes. Make notes of your conversation, their responses (verbal and non-verbal).

This course is accredited by ACCPH and allows you to join as a professional member after completion. Membership allows you to add the letters MACCPH after your name (post-nominals).

Those who want to develop the ability to analyse psychological conditions, and apply that knowledge in real world situations such as counselling or advisory roles.

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