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The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. This includes knowledge of:
legal and ethical considerations for group counselling work, and how these are applied in organisations and individual practice:codes of conduct discrimination duty of care ethical dilemmas in practice, and processes for ethical decision-makingmandatory reportingpractitioner client boundaries and implications of unequal balance of powerprivacy, confidentiality and disclosure, including limitationsrecords management work role boundaries – responsibilities and limitations of group interventionswork health and safety, including:stress managementsupervision requirements for group counselling worknature of complex interpersonal interactions and relationship, including:abuse conflictpower balanceshow these play out in group situationssystemic therapeutic group work interventions and their application and evidence base:cognitive/behaviouralsolution focusedsystemic approachesmutual aid modelstrengths, limitations, and contraindications of specific group counselling models, including risks of harm associated with models that incorporate assumptions of family dysfunction, pathogenesis, or cultural deficithow group counselling may be used at the:individual levelsub group levelwhole-of-group levelprocesses, practices and factors for consideration in selecting participants for group counsellingtypes of information and supports needed to prepare participants for group counsellingmodels, theories, principles and practices of group work, including:establishing agreements about how the group will operate and guidelines for behaviourdifferent stages of group developmentdifferent types of group leadershipuses and abuse of group techniquesresponses to disclosures in groupsmanagement of conflict and challenging behaviourstrategies for learning and changetransference and counter transference issues that arise in group counselling and how to manage thesegroup and individual defences and how these can be managedcommunication and counselling techniques and how they are applied in the group process:challengingcollaborationconflict resolution effective non-verbal communicationempathetic respondingfocusinglisteningnegotiationparaphrasingreframingquestioningsummarisingfactors that affect the dynamics of a group, including:attempted sabotage of processavoidance of discussion of conflictchallenging feedbackconflict between or among participants/ facilitatorsgroup splittinginappropriate use of behaviour or relationshipsmanipulation of other participantschallenges and mistakes in leading counselling groups and strategies for how to address and avoid these methods for measuring effectiveness of group counselling interventionsrole of reflective practice and the nature of a counselling reflective practice frameworkreferral sources for group members in need of additional services role and importance of self awareness and influence of own beliefs and attitudes.