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Individual and Group Counselling (5 cr)

Code: SX00GE03-3004

General information


Enrollment
05.05.2025 - 18.05.2025
Registration for implementation has not started yet.
Timing
11.08.2025 - 31.12.2025
The implementation has not yet started.
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 cr
RDI portion
5 cr
Mode of delivery
On-campus
Unit
RDI Services
Campus
Myllypurontie 1
Teaching languages
Finnish
Seats
0 - 30
Degree programmes
Social Services
Teachers
Leena Korhonen
Teacher in charge
Emilia Deseille
Groups
LS8825S
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Course
SX00GE03
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Objective

Student
- is familiar with the basic principles of individual counselling and can apply them in various client situations
- is able to use interaction and counselling methods in dialogical individual and group counselling
- can utilise digital tools in guidance situations and understands the opportunities and challenges of digital counselling methods
- develops their own counselling skills by reflecting on their own guidance experiences
- can analyse group dynamics in counselling situations and use various methods to support this.

Content

- Basics of individual counselling: interaction, motivation and support skills
- Basics of group facilitation: group dynamics, roles and group processes
- Digital guidance: digital tools, online guidance and interaction skills
- Ethical principles of guidance and interaction
- Dialogical encounter
- Practical exercises in individual, group and community counselling with different target groups

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Framework of assessment is attached in the curriculum's description.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Framework of assessment is attached in the curriculum's description.

Objective

Student
- is familiar with the basic principles of individual counselling and can apply them in various client situations
- is able to use interaction and counselling methods in dialogical individual and group counselling
- can utilise digital tools in guidance situations and understands the opportunities and challenges of digital counselling methods
- develops their own counselling skills by reflecting on their own guidance experiences
- can analyse group dynamics in counselling situations and use various methods to support this.

Content

- Basics of individual counselling: interaction, motivation and support skills
- Basics of group facilitation: group dynamics, roles and group processes
- Digital guidance: digital tools, online guidance and interaction skills
- Ethical principles of guidance and interaction
- Dialogical encounter
- Practical exercises in individual, group and community counselling with different target groups

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