HPY744 - Research in Counselling
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
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| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | This unit assumes that students have already acquired foundational knowledge in principles of counselling and have sound awareness of counselling ethics and respect for diversity and inclusion. |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Rick Whitehead |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in H658, H758 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 11 x 2 hour seminars Students must also complete 11 x 1 hour self-paced interactive modules (pre-recorded). These modules will provide students with theoretical background for practical research and counselling skills taught in online seminars. Online seminars each week will support students to develop applied research and counselling skills. These seminars will focus on demonstrating and practising these skills in dyads and triads (e.g. Describing research to clients, summarizing and presenting research to groups, qualitative interview skills, evaluating and discussing digital technologies with clients, delivering and scoring outcomes measures). |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Content
In this unit students will explore academic research in relation to counselling and mental health. Students will learn about the historical tradition and development of research in counselling, common research methods, how to evaluate the quality of research evidence, and how to communicate research to a variety of audiences. Students will explore how to translate research into counselling practice, as well as the meaning and importance of evidence-informed practice. This unit will also equip students to become effective research-practitioners through the use of counselling outcomes measures, and how to incorporate and interpret these measures in their counselling practice. Students will also be taught how to evaluate the use and impact of digital technologies in counselling, stay up-to-date with contemporary counselling research.
Learning outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
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| ULO1 | Critically examine the role of research in improving evidence-based counselling practice, including the limitations of translating research into practice. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Identify research questions in counselling and use digital tools to locate relevant research evidence to address them. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Evaluate and employ outcome measures used in practice to ensure a high quality of counselling delivery. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Critically examine the methodologies and findings of quantitative and qualitative research and communicate this to scientific and non-scientific audiences. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO5 | Formulate a research proposal, including a theoretical rationale, and following current ethical and methodological guidelines for counselling research. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
Assessment
Trimester 2:| Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: Annotated Bibliography | 1000 words | 20% |
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| Assessment 2: Literature review | 2000 words | 40% |
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| Assessment 3: Research proposal | 15 minute presentation | 40% |
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The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for HPY744 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
Unit Fee Information
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