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Counselling & Psychology

Health and General • COUN 200 Theories and Systems in Counselling and
Counselling Psychotherapy
• COUN 210 Micro-Skills in Counselling and Psychotherapy
• COUN 310 Advanced Skills in Individual Counselling and
Psychotherapy
• COUN 330 Ethics: Professional Issues and Personal Awareness
• PSY 209 Positive Psychology
• PSY 303 Health Psychology
Research and Cognitive • PSY 310 Advanced Cognitive Psychology
Science • PSY 311-2 Research Internship
• PSY 404 Psychology of Consciousness
• PSY 405 Human Neuropsychology
• PSY 406 Specific Issues in Neuroscience

DESCRIPTION OF COURSES (BSocSc DEGREE PROGRAMMES)

COUN 110 Personal Growth
1 Term; Non-Credit Bearing
This course aims at promoting self-awareness and developing essential ingredients of
psychological health such as creativity, emotional and interpersonal competencies and the
capacity to participate in community life. It helps to sensitize students to an understanding of
themselves as individuals and as members of a social group, society or culture. At the individual
level, a well-adjusted human being is one who is aware of her/his strengths and limitations as
well as potentialities for growth.

COUN 200 Theories and Systems in Counselling and Psychotherapy
1 Term; 3 Credits
The course provides a comprehensive and critical study of the major contemporary
theories of counselling and psychotherapy. It also introduces the basic principles and
interventions in counselling and their applications in professional counselling settings. Topics
covered include the foundation and understanding of the philosophical bases of the helping
process; professional helper's roles; code of ethics in the helping process; clients’ and helpers’
self-understanding and self-development; and facilitation of client change. All these topics are
primarily discussed within the cultural context of Hong Kong.
Basic theories include psychoanalytic therapy and its extensions, existential therapy,
person-centred therapy, behaviour therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, rational-emotive
therapy, reality therapy, postmodern approaches, and so on. Case comparisons and analyses
are used throughout the course and students are also encouraged to conceptualize cases with
the consideration of cultural factors.

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