Study:	Social Work - 5. semester
Code:	62021
ECTS:	2.0
Course coordinators:	prof. dr. sc. Gordana Berc izv. prof. dr. sc. Marina Milić

Literature:

Berc, G. i Milić Babić, M.; Predavanja iz Kolegija Osnove savjetovanja; power point prezentacije, str

Optional literature:

Milić Babić, M. i Berc, G. (2021); Vodič kroz Terensku praksu Osnove savjetovanja; Interni priručnik - pdf - ažuriran svake godine, str

Description:

Within the course "Practical Work in Basic Counselling" and according to the curriculum, field practice is conducted of 30 hours during the winter semester. The aim of this field practice is to to gain experience in different types of counselling centers and their users work, and to get to know the work of different experts who apply certain approaches in the work of users. In addition, during the field practice students have the opportunity to gain personal experience in direct / indirect work with counselling users in order to improve the knowledge acquired during lectures and to develop skills for quality counselling, active listening, questioning skills, coping skills, assessment skills... Field practice takes place, among others, in the following institutions: Polyclinic for protection of children and youth of the City of Zagreb Psychological Center "Tesa", Brave Phone Association Association "Children First" Association "Pragma" Association "Community Meeting" Step by Step Association Croatian Association for Alzheimer's Disease Support groups for persons with alcohol addiction Family centers Social welfare centers and others... The obligations of students are: (1) monitoring information on the work and content of the work of individual counselling centres in which field practice takes place; (2) conducting field practice in counselling centres for 25 hours; (3) participation in discussion groups 2 hours; (4) writing a practice diary, which involves keeping regular notes of each visit to the counselling centre (or the institution where the counselling takes place) and analysing individual cases and recognizing the problem in which the person (family) is and the possibilities of solving problems through counselling (3 hours).

Cognitive Skills:

Knowledge and understanding

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- define counselling process and aims, and interview as a basic skill in conducting the counselling process,

- recognise techniques and skills in the counselling process and elements of successful communication,

- group individual types of users for counselling and types of counselling,

- indicate and name individual phases of counselling process,

- identify outcomes of counselling process,

- discuss the applicability and effects of counselling,

- indicate basic prerequisites for successful counselling.

 

Application

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- understand purposefulness of counselling as a method of help,

- apply the knowledge about skills and techniques in counselling,

- demonstrate interview as a skill in the process of counselling,

- use triage and ethical principles during the process of counselling,

- conduct the process of couunselling.

 

Analysis

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- distinguish between individual techniques and skills in conducting the process of counselling,

- analyse individual parts of interview and the process of counselling,

- compare outcomes of individual interviews with regard to the application of different techniques and skills during the interview,

- indicate tasks of the counsellor connected with individual phase of the counselling process.

 

Synthesis

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- design a course of an individual phase of the process of counselling,

- propose techniques for successful implementation of individual phases of the counselling process,

- organise and prepare conditions for the conduct of the counselling process,

- manage counselling process.

 

Evaluation

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- recommend counselling as a method of help.

- compare advantages and disadvantages of individual types of counselling,

- assess the difference in the approach to counselling between voluntary and non-voluntary users,

- evaluate outcomes of individual phases and overall counselling process.

Practical and Generic Skills:

After successful completion of course obligations, students will be able to:

- apply knowledge, skills and techniques of conducting interviews and counselling process indirect work with the user

- develop skills of conducting interviews and counselling

- present their work and evaluate individual counselling outcomes

- participate in professional team work

Matching Assessments to Learning Outcomes:

Practical work is graded through the dychotomous scale "satisfied" / "did not satisfy" on the basis of an insight into written reports and monitoring students through group work in consultation meetings.

Consultations schedule:

• prof. dr. sc. Gordana Berc:

  Fridays from 11:00 to 12:00 pm

  Location: Nazorova 51, room 5D