The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through one's thoughts, experience, and senses.
Knowledge and cognitive skills: Acquired skills that reflect an individual's ability to think. Cognitive skills include verbal and spatial abilities, concentration, memory, perception, reasoning, planning and organisation, flexible thinking, and problem solving.
- Introduction
This course requires knowledge of theory and the skills of cognition and literacy. - Description of inherent requirement
Student demonstrates:
- the capacity to locate appropriate and relevant information
- the ability to process information relevant to practice
- the ability to integrate and implement knowledge in practice.
- Justification of inherent requirement
Safe and effective counselling practice is based on identifying and accurately extracting plus understanding information from a range of sources and applying this appropriately. - Adjustments
Adjustments must not compromise or impede student's ability to demonstrate the minimum acceptable level of knowledge and cognitive skill required to practice safely. - Exemplars:
- Ability to apply appropriate conceptual understanding in response to an academic assessment
- Ability to conduct individual and group sessions for clients based on relevant treatment plans.
Literacy (language): This relates to the ability to acquire, understand, and apply information in the English language in a scholarly manner.
- Introduction
Competent English literacy skills are essential to provide safe and effective counselling practice. - Description of inherent requirement
Student demonstrates:
- The ability to acquire information and accurately convey appropriate, effective messages
- The ability to read and comprehend a range of literature and information
- The capacity to understand and implement academic conventions to construct written text in a scholarly manner including making explicit links between practice and theory.
- Justification of inherent requirement
The ability to acquire information and to accurately convey messages in English is fundamental to ensure safe and effective delivery of counselling practice. - Adjustments
Adjustments must demonstrate a capacity to effectively acquire, comprehend, apply, and communicate accurate information in English. - Exemplars:
- Paraphrasing, summarising, and referencing in accordance with the American Psychological Association Publication Manual
- Producing accurate, concise, and clear documentation while on placement which meets legal and professional requirements.