CHCLEG001: Work legally and ethically
Course Overview
This module outlines the skills and knowledge required as a counsellor to identify and work within the legal and ethical frameworks that apply to an individual job role in the community sector.
This module applies to community services, counsellors and health workers who play a proactive role in identifying and meeting their legal and ethical responsibilities.
Topics Include
1. Legal Requirements
2. Identify and Meet Ethical Responsibilities
3. Contribute to Workplace Improvements
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- identify legal and ethical considerations (international, national, state/territory, local) for people working in the community services and health context, how they are applied in organisations, how these impact individual workers, and the consequences of breaches:
- children in the workplace
- codes of conduct
- codes of practice
- complaints management
- continuing professional education
- discrimination
- dignity of risk
- duty of care
- human rights:
- Universal declaration of human rights
- relationship between human needs and human rights
- frameworks, approaches and instruments used in the workplace
- informed consent
- mandatory reporting
- practice standards
- practitioner/client boundaries
- privacy, confidentiality and disclosure
- policy frameworks
- records management
- rights and responsibilities of workers, employers and clients
- industrial relations legislation relevant to employment conditions of role
- specific legislation in the area of work – objectives and key components
- work role boundaries – responsibilities and limitations
- work health and safety
- Identify and respond to interrelationships, similarities and differences that may exist between legal and ethical frameworks
- legal issues in the context of the work role:
- type of legal issues that arise
- ways to respond
- ethical practice in the context of the work role:
- type of ethical issues that arise
- ways to respond
- workplace policies, procedures and protocols:
- how they are/should be developed
- processes for review, including consultation and mechanisms for input
Webinar Recording
This will be added to the MeWe you have been allocated or added here.
Where to Start
Look at your own practice, boundaries and ethical considerations. Go through the case studies and implement the policies, procedures, protocols into your own practice through journalling.
Reflective Practise
Take these insights into self evaluation and reflect on them throughout your case studies, in developing a practice and where you could do things differently.
Peer Group Case Supervision
Ensuring you have continued support as a counsellor out in the community. Every month we meet as counsellors, graduates and those who want to learn more and go over case studies that we have. This is a very valuable process as ensuring you have support and guidance is part of best practise and essential for professional development hours.
JOIN US. To book go to: https://student.awakening.com.au/course/case-study-supervision-groups/
Staff
Brenda Sutherland
Brenda Sutherland
B.Soc Sc (Psych) TAE, IICT, AHHCA
Brenda founded The Awakening Group P/L in 1993. Her clear vision was to empower each individual to live their true potential. Since then The Awakening Group has grown from counselling, to counsellor training to offer online webinars and programs for organizations and businesses bringing teams together, effectively communicating to deliver results across the board.
Brenda B.Soc.Sc.(Psych) is a Holistic Counsellor, Trainer and Consultant with her practice grounded in over 30 years experience. She is the founder and Director of The Awakening Group accredited training programs and workshops conducted throughout Australia.
Over the past 20 years Brenda has taught at universities, lectured at conferences, appeared on TV and radio, written for magazines and conducted seminars throughout Australia and NZ. She has facilitated many workshops for private, corporate and governmental organizations on personal growth and professional development.
Brenda is a dynamic counsellor and educator who employs her intuition and professional knowledge to gently guide every individual in living their truth.
Throughout her career Brenda has combined her personal commitment to her own self growth and extensive, yet unique, professional training including Psychology, EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization Reprogramming, Art Therapy, Tantra, Eco-psychology, Soul Centred therapy, Kinesiology, Family & Organizational Constellation with world renowned facilitators (Dr Gunthard Weber, Dr Albrecht Mahr, Dr Guni Baxa, Dr Ursula Franke, Jakob Schneider, Dr Jane Peterson, Ed Lynch, Stephan Hausner etc). Further Brenda has trained with Bessel van de Kolk (one of the worlds leading trauma experts), as well as Pat Odgen; body centred psychotherapy. She has also trained in The Work of Byron Katie and is a Effectiveness (Communication) Training instructor.
Brenda combines the latest neuroscience, attachment styles, arousal regulation, memory reconstruction techniques to return clients to a peaceful sense of self .
Furthermore Brenda is a PACT Level 1 Couples counsellor having trained with Dr Stan Tatkin, the Founder of the Psychobiological Approach for Couple Therapy.
You have the power within to transform and live your hearts desire. Brenda creates an opportunity to take you and your experience in relationships, life, sexuality, career and love a step further in authenticity to be the person you dreamed yourself to be. Discover and live new possibilities within yourself, relationships, career, sexually, health, with money and life.
Individual sessions, couple counselling and workshops are available (also via Zoom online) to support you in moving into the freedom of being. Issues of anxiety, fear, stress, anger, grief, sexuality, illness, relationships and much more are addressed with each session personally tailored to transform issues standing in the way of being the more of you.
Here’s what one client said:
“Thank you for today. I feel Amazing!!!”
Brenda has written for:
She has been quoted in:
and appeared on Channel 9’s Alternatives pilot program facilitating “Unmasking The Wild Woman” with guest Catriona Rowntree (Getaway presenter)
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Brenda Sutherland
Brenda Sutherland
B.Soc Sc (Psych) TAE, IICT, AHHCABrenda founded The Awakening Group P/L in 1993. Her clear vision was to empower each individual to live their true potential. Since then The Awakening Group has grown from counselling, to counsellor training to offer online webinars and programs for organizations and businesses bringing teams together, effectively communicating to deliver results across the board.
Brenda B.Soc.Sc.(Psych) is a Holistic Counsellor, Trainer and Consultant with her practice grounded in over 30 years experience. She is the founder and Director of The Awakening Group accredited training programs and workshops conducted throughout Australia. Over the past 20 years Brenda has taught at universities, lectured at conferences, appeared on TV and radio, written for magazines and conducted seminars throughout Australia and NZ. She has facilitated many workshops for private, corporate and governmental organizations on personal growth and professional development.Brenda is a dynamic counsellor and educator who employs her intuition and professional knowledge to gently guide every individual in living their truth.Throughout her career Brenda has combined her personal commitment to her own self growth and extensive, yet unique, professional training including Psychology, EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization Reprogramming, Art Therapy, Tantra, Eco-psychology, Soul Centred therapy, Kinesiology, Family & Organizational Constellation with world renowned facilitators (Dr Gunthard Weber, Dr Albrecht Mahr, Dr Guni Baxa, Dr Ursula Franke, Jakob Schneider, Dr Jane Peterson, Ed Lynch, Stephan Hausner etc). Further Brenda has trained with Bessel van de Kolk (one of the worlds leading trauma experts), as well as Pat Odgen; body centred psychotherapy. She has also trained in The Work of Byron Katie and is a Effectiveness (Communication) Training instructor. Brenda combines the latest neuroscience, attachment styles, arousal regulation, memory reconstruction techniques to return clients to a peaceful sense of self . Furthermore Brenda is a PACT Level 1 Couples counsellor having trained with Dr Stan Tatkin, the Founder of the Psychobiological Approach for Couple Therapy. You have the power within to transform and live your hearts desire. Brenda creates an opportunity to take you and your experience in relationships, life, sexuality, career and love a step further in authenticity to be the person you dreamed yourself to be. Discover and live new possibilities within yourself, relationships, career, sexually, health, with money and life. Individual sessions, couple counselling and workshops are available (also via Zoom online) to support you in moving into the freedom of being. Issues of anxiety, fear, stress, anger, grief, sexuality, illness, relationships and much more are addressed with each session personally tailored to transform issues standing in the way of being the more of you. Here’s what one client said:
“Thank you for today. I feel Amazing!!!” Brenda has written for:
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Navigating the Classroom
Scroll further down and you will see the lessons under each module. Click on the first lesson and go through the lesson, answer the quiz questions at the bottom of the lesson by clicking on ‘Take Quiz’. Then submit the quiz, the majority of the lessons are automatically marked.
Each module has a Reflection and Case Study lesson which reflects on the module and then asks more comprehensive questions.
Work your way through the online classroom in the order that it is designed.
Remember to add your Evaluation at the end to complete the course. Thank you for your feedback in advance.
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