MCOS Master of Counselling - Offshore

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Overview

This course prepares graduates to be accredited counsellors. It offers contemporary and emerging counselling theories and approaches that can be integrated across diverse practice settings to improve health outcomes for individuals and communities. Students undertake supervised industry placements, engage in research in an area of interest and learn from a broad interdisciplinary group of leading academics and researchers in the field. Graduates have the option to register as a Counsellor in Singapore and Australia.

The Master of Counselling articulates with the 36 unit Graduate Diploma in Counselling and the 18 unit Graduate Certificate in Counselling, and the sequentially developed topics enable progression through the three awards.

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Program of study overview

Program of study notes

Program of study
72 Units

Year 136 Units

Core36 Units

Study Period 118 Units

Study Period 218 Units

Year 236 Units

Core31.5 Units

Option4.5 Units

Admission requirements

Admission requirements

English Language requirements

Aims

This course aims to:

Accredit graduates as a Counsellor with the Singapore Association for Counselling (Singapore), and the Australian Counselling Association (Australia), alongside their post-graduate qualification
Provide comprehensive knowledge of evidence-based counselling approaches for whole of person health, and wellbeing across the lifespan

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course you will be able to:

Conduct comprehensive assessments and deliver treatment for a range of mental and physical health conditions using contemporary evidence to work with a range of people

Integrate valid and reliable engagement and outcome measures to guide and inform assessment and support with people across the continuum of care

Contribute to an evolving model of health care at the local and global level

Practice as a proficient and competent counsellor using a range of counselling approaches that are empirically informed

Provide adapted, person-centric support that recognises the variance of health and illness across a continuum

Recognise culture, identity and choice is inherent in contemporary counselling practice

Student progression rules

Failure to complete the course within 4 years, may constitute prima facie evidence of unsatisfactory progress for the purposes of the University’s Student Progress Policy.

Professional accreditation and recognition

Professional accreditation

Upon successful completion of Master of Counselling, students are eligible to apply for Provisional Clinical Membership (PCM) with Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC). Upon attaining PCM, students are then required to undertake 600 counselling hours and 60 clinical supervision hours to become a Registered Counsellor. Students will NOT be able to apply for PCM after completion of Graduate Diploma of Counselling.

This course is accredited by the Australian Counselling Association (ACA). Graduates meet the academic and practice requirements to register with the ACA and work as a Counsellor within Australia.

Associations

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Onshore/Offshore association