Timetable for Bachelor of Counselling

Christchurch campus

Semester 1, 2021

TIME	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Year One	(9:30 am - 12:30 pm) The conviction that people are best understood as "persons-in-relationship" has implications for the therapeutic approach adopted by the counsellor. This course is the first of six that form a core counselling practice development stream through the Bachelor of Counselling. The course combines theological and theoretical reflection with skill development and group-process workshops. It begins to develop a set of core person-centred practices aimed at I-Thou engagement that emphasise the restoration of self-awareness and the enriching of dialogical relationships. 900.515 Foundations A Erica Griffin LR2 (1:30 - 4 pm) 900 Process Group 1A SMR Group times may change (1:30 - 4 pm) 900 Process Group 1B LR4 Group times may change (1:30 - 4 pm) 900 Process Group 1C MR1 Group times may change (1:30 - 4 pm) 900 Process Group 1D LR3 Group times may change	(9:30 am - 12:30 pm) This course surveys contemporary understandings of human development in conversation with Christian theological descriptions of human being. 857.515 Human Development Emma Christie LR1		(9:30 am - 12:30 pm) This course aims to integrate and apply theological reflection, providing opportunities for learners to develop skills for working with biblical texts in appropriate leadership, church, mission, or community contexts. 215.515 Beginning Theology Alan Thomson LR2	(1:30 - 4:30 pm) This foundational course introduces counselling as a therapeutic relational engagement that finds its context, and its goal, in knowledge of God and humanity drawn from the story of Christ. From this critical standpoint it engages with a broad range of counselling theories and models of practice. 906.515/715 Personhood, Relationality and Faith Lex McMillan LR1 *
Year Two		(1:30 - 4:30 pm) Families/whanau, understood as unique and culturally-representative relational systems, provide a primary context for the formation of persons-in-relationship. This course combines theoretical and theological reflection in order to explore these family/whanau dynamics and develop strategies for therapeutically engaging with people within the context of their family/whanau relationships. 911.615 Relationships and Family Hyeeun Kim LR2 * (9:30 am - 12 pm) 902 Process Group 2A MR1 Group times may change (9:30 am - 12 pm) 902 Process Group 2B LR4 Group times may change	(9 am - 4:30 pm) Key to a relational approach to counselling is the therapeutic relationship, or encounter, during which counsellor and client create a relational canvas upon which the change and growth can be sketched and explored. This third course in the core counselling practice development stream expands the student’s understanding of this encounter, and introduces narrative therapy as a means of assisting people to engage the social dimension of their lives. It explores the place of "story" in personal meaning-making, and advances skill development in a classroom and the group process workshop. 902.615 Relational Practice A Donald McMenamin LR2 (17 Mar; 14 Apr; 19 May; 9 Jun) (9 am - 4:30 pm) The aim of this course is to form professional counselling practices for working with children and young people in agency and school settings. The course is designed to complement Laidlaw’s broad counsellor education programme’s emphasis on relational personhood through providing a coherent understanding of child development, within family/whanau and wider social contexts. The course includes a strong practice development component in which different child counselling approaches such as skills in working with adolescents and families are taught and practiced. This course also gives an overview of ways of understanding and working with adolescents, and the professional and practice challenges and opportunities of school and agency settings. 913.615 Counselling Children and Young People Barbara Bulkeley, Sue Grant LR2 (10 Mar; 7 Apr; 12 May; 2 Jun) (9 am - 4:30 pm) A well-integrated understanding of ethical counselling practice and the ability to reflect robustly on this is fundamental to offering clients the safety to encounter self and others. This course introduces professional practice and requires students to reflect on 30 hours of counselling practice in a practicum placement. 930.615 Prof Prac A Hyeeun Kim LR2 (3 & 31 Mar; 5 & 26 May)
Year Three	(1:30 - 4:30 pm) This course explores questions about human suffering and the God who engages with humans at the level of their despair. It engages with how the scriptures acknowledge human suffering, and looks at hope from a biblical/theological/anthropological/relational perspective. 921.615/715 Theology of Suffering & Hope Immanuel Koks LR1 * (9:30 am - 12 pm) 904 Process Group 3A MR1 Group times may change (9:30 am - 12 pm) 904 Process Group 3B LR4 Group times may change		(9 am - 4:30 pm) Relational breakdown and dysfunction have psychological, social and theological foundations. The fifth course in the core counselling practice development stream develops the skills to identify where and how relationality has been damaged and where people have intentionally, or unintentionally, developed ways of relating that are damaging to themselves and others. It combines practice, theoretical, and theological reflection with group-based learning, and enriches the student’s ability to practice counselling in a personally and theoretically integrated way. 904.715 Integrated Practice A Sarah Penwarden LR1 (10 Mar; 7 Apr; 12 May; 2 Jun) (9 am - 4:30 pm) Central to a relational approach to counselling is the therapeutic relationship. It is in the context of this relationship, and on the basis of the trust that has developed, that the counsellor is able to invite the client to an awareness of themselves and others as relationally-constituted and impacted persons. This course requires students to experience 60 hours of practicum placement (plus preparation, reading and reporting), in order to integrate theoretical, theological and personal reflections, as well as development of skills and process. 932.730 Practicum A Erica Griffin LR1 (17 Mar; 14 Apr; 19 May; 9 Jun)

* These courses will involve video conferencing from either Auckland or Christchurch

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This timetable is correct at the time of publication; however the College reserves the right to cancel courses, or alter lecture times should circumstances arise. Up to date information is available at any time by contacting the College.