Corey, G. (2023) Theory and practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy, International Global Edition (11th Ed.) Brooks/Cole.

Corey, G., Corey, M.S., & Corey, C. (2023). Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions (11th ed.). Stamford, CT: Brooks/ Cole.

Lopez Levers, L. (Ed.). (2022). Trauma Counseling: Theories and Interventions (2nd ed). Springer.

Worden, W.J. (2018). Grief Counselling and grief therapy. A handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner (5th ed). Springer.

No textbook.

No textbook.

Hungerford, C., Hodgson, D., Clancy, R., Murphy, G., Doyle, K., Bernoth, M., & Cleary, M. (2023). Mental health care: An introduction for health professionals (5th ed.). Wiley.

Patterson, J.,  Griffith, J.J., & Edwards, T.M. (2021), The Therapist's Guide to Psychopharmacology (3rd ed.). Guilford Press.

Muir-Cochrane, E., Barkway, P., &  Nizette, D. (2018). Pocketbook of Mental Health (3rd ed.). Elsevier.

No textbook.

No textbook.

Elizabeth Boros and John Duns, Corporate Law (4th ed, Oxford University Press, 2022).

Robin Creyke et al, Control of Government Action (LexisNexis, 7th ed, 2025).

Emily Crawford, Alison Pert, Ben Saul (Eds). 2023. Public International Law.

No textbook.

David Hamer, Judith Jones, Patrick O’Mara, Belinda Smith and Tristan Taylor, Laying Down the Law (LexisNexis 12th Ed, 2023).

Kath Hall and Claire Macken, Legislation and Statutory Interpretation (LexisNexis, 5th ed, 2021).

No textbook.

Stoker, G & Evans, M (eds) (2016) Evidence-Based Policy Making in the Social Sciences. Policy Press.

Peters, B. and Fontaine, G. (eds) (2020) Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Comparative Policy Analysis, Edward Elgar.

No textbook.

No textbook.

No textbook.

No textbook.

Brooks, Jeffrey, Normore, Anthony. (2018) Foundations of Educational Leadership: Developing Excellent and Equitable Schools.

No textbook.

Required chapters from the textbooks below. We use each minimally throughout the unit and you can access them through the UC library without purchasing.

Maylea, C. (2019). Social Work and the Law: A Guide for Ethical Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Ife, J., Soldatic, K., & Briskman, L. (2022). Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights Based Practice (4th Ed). Cambridge University Press.

Pease, B. (2020). Doing Critical Social Work: Transformative Practices for Social Justice. Routledge, London.

Marson, S. & McKinney, R. (2018). The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Ethics and Values. Routledge, London.

Dunk-West, P. & Saxton, K. (2024). Qualitative Social Research: Critical Methods for Social Change. Routledge.

Rawsthorne, M., Tseris, E., Howard, A., Terare, M. & Sharma, A. (2023). Using Social Research for Social Justice: An Introduction for Social Work and Human Services. Routledge.

Tuhiwai Smith, L. (2013). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and Indigenous peoples. Zed Books.

Carson, E., & Kerr, L. (2020). Australian social policy and the human services (Third edition.). Cambridge University Press. [e-copy available via library]

McClelland, A. (2014). Social policy in Australia : understanding for action (A. McClelland & P. Smyth, Eds.; Third edition.). Oxford University Press aust. [e-copy available via library]

Hughes & Wearing (2021) Organisation and Management for social work: Everyday action for change, Sage.

No textbook. Any optional resources will be made available through the library.

No textbook. Any optional resources will be made available through the library.

There is no set text but we highly recommend this as a quick reference.

Ellis, S. (2021). Five Minutes a Day to an Upgraded Therapy Practice, Transtheoretical Tips to Help You Make the Most of Each Session. Routledge.

David Hamer, Judith Jones, Patrick O’Mara, Belinda Smith and Tristan Taylor, Laying Down the Law (Lexis Nexis, 12th ed, 2023).

Kath Hall and Claire Macken, Legislation and Statutory Interpretation (LexisNexis, 6th ed, 2020).

Boucher, L., Arrow, M., Baird, B., & Reynolds, R. (2024). Personal politics: Sexuality, gender and the remaking of citizenship in Australia.

Monash University Publishing. Pepin-Neff, C. (2025). Tolerable inequality: Understanding public policy and LGBTQ+ politics. Routledge.

Chenoweth, L. and McAuliffe, D., (2023). The Road to Social Work and Human Service Practice 7th edition. Melbourne, Cengage Learning Australia.

Bennett, B. & Green, S. (2019). Our Voices: Aboriginal Social Work. 2nd Edition. Bloomsbury.

Goelitz, A. (2020). From Trauma to Healing (2nd ed.). Taylor & Francis.

Tucci, J. et al. (2024). The Handbook of Trauma-Transformative Practice. Jessica Kingsley.

McDermott, F. (2020). Inside Group Work: A Guide to Reflective Practice. Routledge. (E-copy available by library) Steinberg, D. & Lyons, E. (2022).

Deconstructing Group Work for Human Services Professionals: A skill building handbook. Routledge. (E-copy available by library)

Garvin, C., Gutirrez, L. & Galinsky, M. (2017). Handbook of Social Work With Groups. Guilford. (E-copy available by library)

Counselling Skills in Practice PG **including F2F intensive**

McLeod, J. (2019). An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy — Theory, Research and Practice (6th ed.). Open University Press.

Sommers-Flanagan, J., & Sommers-Flanagan, R. (2021). Suicide assessment and treatment planning : a strengths-based approach. American Counseling Association. ISBN:9781556204050; 1-119-78360-7

Samantha Kontra, Essential Legal Skills: A Guide for First Year Law Students (Lawbook Co, 2nd Ed, 2025).

Jay Sanderson, Drossos Stamboulakis, and Kim Kelly, A Practical Guide to Legal Research (Lawbook, 5th ed, 2021).

Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008).

McCaffrie, B., Grattan, M., & Wallace, C. (Eds.). (2023). The Morrison Government: Governing through crisis, 2019-2022. NewSouth Publishing.

Robson, C., & McCartan, K. (2016). Real World Research (4th ed.). Wiley.

Recommended text: Johnson, R. B., & Christensen, L. B. (2019). Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches (7th ed.). SAGE.

Howard, A., Rawsthorne, M., Joseph, P., Terare, M., Sampson, D. & Katrak Harris, M. (2023). Social work and human services responsibilities in a time of climate change: Country, community and complexity. Taylor & Francis Group.

Howard, A. & Rawsthorne, M. (2020). Everyday community practice: principles and practice. Allen and Unwin Australia.

Lopez Levers, L. (Ed.). (2022). Trauma Counseling: Theories and Interventions (2nd ed). Springer.

Worden, W.J. (2018). Grief Counselling and grief therapy. A handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner (5th ed). Springer.

Hungerford, C., Hodgson, D., Clancy, R., Murphy, G., Doyle, K., Bernoth, M., & Cleary, M. (2023). Mental health care: An introduction for health professionals (5th ed.). Wiley

Patterson, J., Griffith, J.J., & Edwards, T.M. (2021), The Therapist's Guide to Psychopharmacology (3rd ed.). Guilford Press.

Muir-Cochrane, E., Barkway, P., & Nizette, D. (2018). Pocketbook of Mental Health (3rd ed.). Elsevier.

Luke Beck, Australian Constitutional Law: Concepts and Cases (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed, 2024)

ISBN: 9781009326605

Samantha Kontra, Essential Legal Skills: A Guide for First Year Law Students (Lawbook Co, 2nd Ed, 2025).

Jay Sanderson, Drossos Stamboulakis, and Kim Kelly, A Practical Guide to Legal Research (Lawbook, 5th ed, 2021).

All optional readings and they will be available through the UC Library:

1. Duckett, S. (2022). The Australin Health Care System (6th Ed). Oxford University Press

2. Liamputtong, P. (2019). Social Determinants of Health. Oxford University Press

3. Hepworth, DH., Rooney, RH., Rooney, GD. Strom-Gottfried, K. (2017). Direct Social Work Practice: Theory andSkills (10th Ed). Cengage Learning

4. Coady, N. & Lehmann, P. (2016). Theoretical Perspectives for Direct Social Work Practice: A Generalist-EclecticApproach. Springer Publishing Company

Dunk-West, P. & Saxton, K. (2024). Qualitative Social Research: Critical Methods for Social Change. Routledge.

Rawsthorne, M., Tseris, E., Howard, A., Terare, M. & Sharma, A. (2023). Using Social Research for Social Justice: An Introduction for Social Work and Human Services. Routledge.

Tuhiwai Smith, L. (2013). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and Indigenous peoples. Zed Books.

Carson, E., & Kerr, L. (2020). Australian social policy and the human services (Third edition.). Cambridge University Press. [e-copy available via library]

McClelland, A. (2014). Social policy in Australia : understanding for action (A. McClelland & P. Smyth, Eds.; Third edition.). Oxford University Press aust. [e-copy available via library]

Hughes & Wearing (2021) Organisation and Management for social work: Everyday action for change, Sage. [Library to obtain e-copy]

There is no set text but we highly recommend this as a quick reference. 

Ellis, S. (2021). Five Minutes a Day to an Upgraded Therapy Practice, Transtheoretical Tips to Help You Make the Most of Each Session. Routledge.

May Fong Cheong, Australian Contract Law: Principles and Cases (Law Book, 2nd ed)* 

*Australian Contract Law: Principles and Cases 

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Samantha Kontra, Essential Legal Skills: A Guide for First Year Law Students (Lawbook, 2025).

Jay Sanderson, Drossos Stamboulakis, and Kim Kelly, A Practical Guide to Legal Research (Lawbook, 2026).

Required: Alexander, Nadja, Jill Howieson, and Kenneth Fox, Negotiation: Strategy Style Skills (Lexis Nexis, 3rd ed. 2015) 

Recommended: Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton, Getting to Yes - Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Random House, 3rd ed, 2012)

Stoker, G & Evans, M (eds) (2016) Evidence-Based Policy Making in the Social Sciences. Policy Press.

Peters, B. and Fontaine, G. (eds) (2020) Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Comparative Policy Analysis, Edward Elgar.

Required chapters from the textbooks below. We use each minimally throughout the unit and you can access them through the UC library without purchasing.

• Maylea, C. (2019). Social Work and the Law: A Guide for Ethical Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing. 

• Ife, J., Soldatic, K., & Briskman, L. (2022). Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights Based Practice (4th Ed). Cambridge University Press. 

• Pease, B. (2020). Doing Critical Social Work: Transformative Practices for Social Justice. Routledge, London  

• Marson, S. & McKinney, R. (2018). The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Ethics and Values. Routledge, London. 

Goelitz, A. (2020). From Trauma to Healing (2nd ed.). Taylor & Francis. 

Tucci, J. et al. (2024). The Handbook of Trauma-Transformative Practice. Jessica Kingsley.

McDermott, F. (2020). Inside Group Work: A Guide to Reflective Practice. Routledge. [E-copy available by library] 

Steinberg, D. & Lyons, E. (2022). Deconstructing Group Work for Human Services Professionals: A skill building handbook. Routledge. [E-copy available by library] 

Garvin, C., Gutirrez, L. & Galinsky, M. (2017). Handbook of Social Work With Groups. Guilford. [E-copy available by library]

Falkheimer, J., & Heide, M. (Eds.). (2022). Research handbook on strategic communication. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800379893 

Haddad, M. A. (2021). Effective advocacy. The MIT Press. 

Holtzhausen, D., Fullerton, D. A., Lewis, B. K., & Shipka, D. (2021). Principles of strategic communication. Routledge.