The Master in Counselling course provides you with an in-depth knowledge base and practice skills in professional counselling. This programme achieves this through the encouragement of scholarship in counselling, professional skills training and attention to the recognition of the counsellor as person. The programme is intended if you desire to develop knowledge, skills and competencies for professional practice in counselling. Graduates will be able to use the skills to competently serve individuals, couples, families, and groups in the community. This programme also promotes the professional status, identity and visibility of counsellors within different cultural contexts and seeks to extend students' abilities to consider counselling within the broader social context as well as within individual client work.
| Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| COU5134 | Counselling Skills: An Introduction | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| COU5142 | Practicum 1 | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
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| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| COU5102 | Development Across the Lifespan | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| COU5227 | Introduction to Counselling for Personal and Professional Development | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
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| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| COU5136 | Psychopathology for Counsellors | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| COU5139 | Career Counselling | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
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| COU5133 | Counselling Theory and Techniques | 10 ECTS | |||||||||
| COU5223 | Practicum 2 | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
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| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| COU5128 | Introduction to Counselling Children and Adolescents | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| COU5225 | Counselling Skills: Advanced | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
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| Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| COU5306 | Practicum 3 | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| COU5307 | Advanced Research Methods for Counselling | 10 ECTS | |||||||||
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| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| COU5138 | Group Counselling and Facilitation | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| COU5140 | Advanced Ethical and Professional Issues | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
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| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| COU5121* | Dissertation | 30 ECTS | |||||||||
| COU5144 | Transcultural Counselling | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| * Work on the dissertation is expected to start in semester two of academic year 2026-27 and continues up to the end of the course. | |||||||||||
| Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| COU5121 | Dissertation | 30 ECTS | |||||||||
| COU5308 | Practicum 4 | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
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Requirement for award of Master in Counselling: 120 ECTS credits
This programme of study is governed by the General Regulations for University Postgraduate Awards, 2021 and by the Bye-Laws for the award of the degree of Master in Counselling - M.Couns. - under the auspices of the Faculty for Social Wellbeing.
