Individual Counselling (VPUPK_295)
About Study Course
Objective
To provide an opportunity to acquire in-depth knowledge of individual counselling approaches its structure and a range of potential problems, and to develop individual counselling skills observing ethical principles (the skill to establish contact with the client, to initiate psychological counselling process; the skill to identify client needs and problems to plan the further professional activity; ability to agree with the client on the goals and conditions of psychological counselling; the ability to establish a psychological counselling strategy in accordance with the intended purpose of counselling; the skills to conduct psychological counselling; the ability to evaluate the result of the psychological counselling; the ability to provide feedback to the client on the psychological counselling).
Prerequisites
General psychology, developmental psychology, personality psychology, clinical psychology, psychological assessment, psychological counselling.
Learning outcomes
Students list and describe the techniques of psychological counselling; they have good knowledge of the process, structure, and basic principles of psychological counselling. Students describe the basic principles of how to establish contact with a client, to find out the client's needs and problems in order to plan their future professional activities, and describe how to agree with the client on the goals of counselling. Students describe the basic principles of how to conduct psychological counselling and evaluate the result, as well as how to give the client feedback about the psychological counselling. Students describe the specific nature, functions, and limitations of the work of a counselling psychologist in different professional environments.
Students have good knowledge of techniques of psychological counselling, they are able to use them appropriately. Students establish contact with the client to initiate the psychological counselling process and identify the client's needs and problems to plan their future professional activities, as well as agree with the client on the goals and conditions of counselling and develop a counselling strategy according to the stated goal. Students analyse the situation of the client. They are able to evaluate and define psychological problems, distinguish between the problems of different character, as well as to search the ways for problem solution depending on the particular situation and possibilities of the particular client. Conduct psychological counselling and evaluate the result, as well as provide feedback to the client on the psychological counselling.
Students independently evaluate and formulate the psychological problems; they find the ways to solve the problem depending on the particular situation and possibilities of the client, while observing the code of ethics and develop the strategy and the plan for psychological counselling.
Study course planning
| Study programme | Study semester | Program level | Study course category | Lecturers | Schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health Psychology, VPM | 1 | Master’s | Limited choice | Ingūna Griškēviča | |
| Health psychology, VPMp | 1 | Master’s | Limited choice | Ingūna Griškēviča |
