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Foundations in Psychological Practice: Communication and Helping Skills
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PSYCB1005 - Foundations in Psychological Practice: Communication and Helping Skills
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<p>Students are introduced to foundational skills in communication, helping interactions, teamwork, self-reflection, and respectful engagement with diverse people and perspectives. The unit explores ethical and professional responsibilities relevant to psychology, including professional conduct, cultural responsiveness, boundaries, wellbeing, and pathways for seeking or referring support within community and workplace settings. Students develop and reflect on interpersonal, communication, and collaborative skills while considering the influence of personal assumptions, values, and communication styles. Through practical and reflective learning experiences, students develop the confidence, communication skills, and foundational professional awareness needed to work effectively with diverse people and communities.</p>
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<p>This unit is designed to enable students to develop foundational communication, interpersonal, and helping skills relevant to psychology and related professions.</p>
<p>Topics may include:</p>
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<li>Communication and helping interactions</li>
<li>Listening and questioning skills</li>
<li>Rapport-building; teamwork and collaboration</li>
<li>Ethical behaviour and professional responsibility</li>
<li>Cultural responsiveness, including respectful engagement with First Nations Australians and perspectives.</li>
<li>Boundaries, wellbeing and self-care</li>
<li>Referral pathways</li>
<li>Self-reflection and professional identity development.</li>
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<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
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Unit description
<p>Students are introduced to foundational skills in communication, helping interactions, teamwork, self-reflection, and respectful engagement with diverse people and perspectives. The unit explores ethical and professional responsibilities relevant to psychology, including professional conduct, cultural responsiveness, boundaries, wellbeing, and pathways for seeking or referring support within community and workplace settings. Students develop and reflect on interpersonal, communication, and collaborative skills while considering the influence of personal assumptions, values, and communication styles. Through practical and reflective learning experiences, students develop the confidence, communication skills, and foundational professional awareness needed to work effectively with diverse people and communities.</p>
Unit content
<p>This unit is designed to enable students to develop foundational communication, interpersonal, and helping skills relevant to psychology and related professions.</p> <p>Topics may include:</p> <ul> <li>Communication and helping interactions</li> <li>Listening and questioning skills</li> <li>Rapport-building; teamwork and collaboration</li> <li>Ethical behaviour and professional responsibility</li> <li>Cultural responsiveness, including respectful engagement with First Nations Australians and perspectives.</li> <li>Boundaries, wellbeing and self-care</li> <li>Referral pathways</li> <li>Self-reflection and professional identity development.</li> </ul>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Health and Wellbeing
Discipline:
Psychology
Study level:
Undergraduate
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
090701 - Psychology
Offering:
<p><strong>Semester 1</strong><p>Ballarat - Mt Helen (On Campus)</p><p>Berwick (On Campus)</p><p>Gippsland - Churchill (On Campus)</p></p>
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/psycb1005">View unit fees</a>
Requisites
Prerequisite
None
Corequisite
None
Exclusion
None
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
<p>On successful completion of this unit, students are expected to gain the following [K]nowledge, [S]kills and [A]pplication of knowledge & skills</p>
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<p>Explain foundational principles of communication, helping interactions, and ethical and professional practice relevant to working with people in diverse contexts, including First Nations Australians.</p>
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<p>Demonstrate and reflect on basic interpersonal, communication and collaborative skills.</p>
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<p>Identify ethical, cultural and professional responsibilities relevant to psychology and interpersonal interactions.</p>
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<p>Reflect on personal assumptions, values, communication styles and areas for growth in relation to working and communicating with others.</p>
Assessment
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<p>Assessment of concepts and principles underpinning effective communication, helping interactions, ethical decision-making, cultural responsiveness, professional practice, and reflective self-awareness.</p>
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<p>20 - 30%</p>
1, 3, 4
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<p>Demonstrate foundational interpersonal, communication, and collaborative skills, including listening, questioning, rapport-building, respectful responding, and teamwork in a structured interaction.</p>
<p>Practical Assessment</p>
<p>30-40%</p>
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<p>Analyse a scenario involving communication, helping interactions, ethical and professional issues, cultural responsiveness, boundaries, wellbeing, self-care, and/or pathways for support. Apply relevant concepts and principles to identify appropriate responses and professional considerations.</p>
<p>Applied Analysis Task</p>
<p>30-40%</p>
1, 2, 3, 4
Supplementary assessment available:
Yes
Supplementary assessment information:
<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
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Description of FedTASK outcome
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FedTASK 1: Interpersonal
The ability to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups.
<p>Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor</p>
FedTASK 2: Leadership
The ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others.
FedTASK 3: Critical Thinking and Creativity
The ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using imagination to create new ideas.
<p>Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor</p>
FedTASK 4: Digital Literacy
The ability to work fluently across a range of tools and applications to achieve a range of skills.
FedTASK 5: Sustainable and Ethical Mindset
The ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions.
<p>Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor</p>
FedTASK
<p>Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FedTASKs (<strong>T</strong>ransferable <strong>A</strong>ttributes <strong>S</strong>kills and <strong>K</strong>nowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key, transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and co-operative learning opportunities.</p>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Health and Wellbeing
Discipline:
Psychology
Study level:
Undergraduate
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
090701 - Psychology
Offering:
<p><strong>Semester 1</strong><p>Ballarat - Mt Helen (On Campus)</p><p>Berwick (On Campus)</p><p>Gippsland - Churchill (On Campus)</p></p>
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/psycb1005">View unit fees</a>
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