Counselling
Programmes | Admission/Entry Requirements | Course Descriptions | Course Dates/Fees
The School of Counselling has designed a brand new degree programme around Laidlaw College’s core belief about people – that we are all “persons-in-relationship” who have been created for rich encounter with God and with people. The School’s approach to counselling incorporates both person-centred and narrative therapies but is structured around a relational framework. Our emphasis is on restoration of relationship, the enriching of relationships, and the broadening of the counsellor’s, and the client’s, appreciation of their own relationality. Rigorous engagement with the scriptures as the source of our richest anthropology is matched by thoughtful interaction with key theories of counselling practice, and robust exposure to the processes of interpersonal engagement and therapy. This bringing together of theory, practice and theology is part of what makes the counselling degree unique.
The goal of the counselling programme is to prepare graduates to engage with clients in a journey that will lead to a fuller, richer relational life. The School of Counselling will lead its students into a more thorough knowledge of themselves in relation to others. Students will also experience how they impact others, primarily in a 3-hour group-process workshop held weekly during the life of the programme.
Bachelor of Counselling
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Programme Name: |
Bachelor of Counselling (BCouns) |
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Level 7, 360 Credits |
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Duration: |
Full-time for three years, or part-time equivalent (up to 8 years) |
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Starts: |
Starts March 2010 |
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Limited to 32 placements per year |
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Applications must be received by... |
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15 December 2009 |
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Programme Summary
The BCouns is designed for students who want to integrate Christian faith with a range of sound, well-established counselling theories and practical skills, in order to enter into community, church-based or private practice.
By the completion of this programme students will be proficient in the practice of relational counselling, and will be equipped to be engaged in professional counselling practice. They will have engaged, practically and critically, with a range of counselling approaches—but specifically person-centred and narrative therapy—and will have demonstrated the ability to integrate their theory and practice with sound theological method. They will have satisfactorily demonstrated their ability to practice under supervision, and will have entered the early stages of specialist practice and research.
KEY: P = Pre-requisite; C = Co-requisite Courses shaded in pink have a weekly group-process workshop attached
Mode 1 = Weekly lectures; Mode 2 = Block Course; Mode 3 = Block & Group Process; Mode 4 = Block & Practicum Placement
The Academic Calendar provides a complete list of available courses.
Bridging Programme
Graduates of the Laidlaw College (previously BCNZ) Diploma of Counselling (DipCouns) programme who are bridging to the Bachelor of Counselling (BCouns) are required to complete a further 120 credits of the BCouns programme. These credits must comprise the following courses:
Theological Foundations:
- 920.515 God’s Triunity and Human Relationality
- 921.715 Theology of Suffering and Hope
- 503.515 Ways of Knowing may substitute for Theology of Suffering and Hope upon application
Practicum:
- 933.730 Practicum (B)
(Corequisite – Integrated Practice A or B)'
Counselling Theory and Practice:
- 906.715 Personhood, Relationality & Faith
- 904.715 Integrated Practice (A)
- 905.715 Integrated Practice (B)
(Prerequisite – Integrated Practice A) - 912.715 Research Methods
(Prerequisite – Integrated Practice A)
Admission/Entry Requirements
View the admission/entry requirements into the School of Counselling programme.
Course Descriptions
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