Handbook

This is the final (capstone) course of the MCSW program and brings together the learning in the previous courses to critically engage you with the complexities of contemporary social work counselling. In the course, you will have the opportunity to identify and critically reflect on a range of theory and practice ideas that inform complex practice issues. These include issues such as therapeutic impasse and difficulties in the therapeutic relationship, cross-cultural contexts of counselling, working with trauma and / or abuse and violence, ethical issues pertaining to counselling, and issues pertaining to diversity. The course integrates learning from the program to enable you to further develop and consolidate counselling methods and practice analysis to explore and apply skills in complex client issues and presentations. Through a focus on case discussion and analysis, grounded directly in your own social work counselling practice, the course also provides an opportunity to integrate the theoretical and practice knowledge gained from other courses and to apply them in particular work and case contexts.