Minor Thesis (Part A)

Unit code: APT6013 | Study level: Postgraduate
24
(Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
City Campus
APT6006 - Research Methods in Counselling
(Or equivalent to be determined by unit coordinator)
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Overview

This unit of study requires students to gain experience in researching and implementing a counselling research project. Students will be required to identify an area of counselling focus from within their placement and develop an evidence based intervention program. Students will identify a target problem within the population related to their counselling placement and to research intervention approaches for this target problem. This involves researching evidence based/established intervention approaches in the literature. Based on the literature review, students will be required to develop and implement an intervention program with the identified target group, typically over a 4-6 week period depending on what the literature recommends.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. Critically review the literature related to the counselling related intervention of a specified counselling based research problem;
  2. Conceptually map an intervention program based around a defined research area; and
  3. Implement the evidence based counselling intervention program.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment type: Literature Review
|
Grade: 30%
Literature review (2500 words)
Assessment type: Project
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Grade: 70%
Description and Implementation of intervention program (3500 words)

Required reading

N/A

As part of a course

This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.

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