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professional bodies will be compared, discussed and applied.

COUN 340 Advanced Skills in Group Facilitation
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course is designed to help students plan psychoeducational groups and develop
facilitation skills in group work. To reach this goal, the course challenges each student to
integrate experiences of being a group member with learning group leadership skills.
Therefore, each student’s own reflections of group experiences, self-awareness, knowledge of
group processes and skills are all emphasized. The course gives an overview of the group
process: stages of group development, ethical and professional issues.

COUN 350 Child Counselling
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course enables the students to understand the principles and concepts of conducting
child counselling. It provides knowledge about the developmental issues, deviations and
problems of children. Students are taught how to conduct a psychological assessment of the
child and recommend a treatment strategy. Special counselling models and techniques like
play therapy, art therapy, behavioural therapy, narrative therapy and storytelling techniques
are introduced to equip students with the necessary tools to work with children either as
individuals or in groups. In addition, students are sensitized to effect children’s changes through
working with parents and utilizing familial resources.

COUN 360 Adolescent Counselling
1 Term; 3 Credits
Counselling adolescents is different from counselling adults. This course aims to acquaint
students with knowledge of theoretical and practical issues in working with adolescents. It will
facilitate the students to examine concepts from different theories in working with adolescents.
Areas of concern such as the biological development, personality development, identity
formation and social challenges faced by the adolescent are addressed. Different theories,
intervention strategies, methods of assessment and clinical techniques both for counselling
adolescent individuals and groups are introduced throughout the course. In addition,
knowledge about specific problems such as juvenile delinquencies, drug use, and adolescent
suicide are also included.

COUN 370 Counselling Students with Special Education Needs
1 Term; 3 Credits
There is a fourfold purpose in this course: first, government’s current policies for students
with special education needs (SENs) will be examined; second, services provided in
educational and counselling contexts to students with SENs will be introduced; third, the
assessment, education and treatment policies for the 3-Tier Intervention model will be
addressed; and fourth, issues related to working with parents, professionals and para-
professionals catering to the needs of students with SENs will be discussed.

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