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Shue Yan University Prospectus 2018-19

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 the-
ories of counselling and psychotherapy. It also introduces the basic principles and interven-
tions 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.

COUN 210 Micro-Skills in Counselling and Psychotherapy
1 Term; 3 Credits
This practice-based course will provide students with the basic knowledge about verbal
and nonverbal micro-skills used in contemporary counselling and psychotherapy. They will
learn to demonstrate their ability to use the skills in role-plays and other simulated settings.
They will also learn relevant ways to practise their skills at different stages of the counselling
process that are age and culture dependent. This is a highly interactive class; students are
required to engage fully and intensively and they are recommended to practise their learned
skills outside the class with “mock” clients.

COUN 220 Cultural Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy
1 Term; 3 Credits
The course aims to enhance students’ general cultural sensitivity and competence in
working with a “diverse” population and to train students to develop critical thinking and insight
about various cultural issues. Specific situations and contextual conditions occurring currently

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