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CO2004: FURTHER STEPS IN COUNSELLING 1 (2016-2017)

Last modified: 28 Jun 2018 10:27


Course Overview

This course follows on from Counselling Skills 1-4 and provide students an opportunity to further develop their skills. Students will reconnect with their previous learning and experience, and update their practice and understanding of counselling skills. The core learning in this course comes from participants working with their own life experiences and skills applications.

See 'Further Information & Notes'.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 2
Session First Sub Session Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Old Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Salma Siddique

Qualification Prerequisites

None.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • One of CO2507 Counselling Skills 4 (Studied) or CO2517 Counselling Skills 4 (Evening) (Studied) or KL151T Counselling Skills 4 (Passed) or KL250X Counselling Skills 4 (Passed)
  • Either Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied) or Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

  • CO2014 Further Steps in Counselling 1 (Evening) (Studied)
  • KL2019 Further Steps in Counselling 1 (Studied)

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Each unit has been designed to enable participants to evidence two core competencies whilst they are engaged in large and small group discussions and practice groups.  

Competence 1: Establish, maintain and bring to an end a supportive interaction. 

Competence 2: Self Monitoring.

Further Steps 1 will concentrate on the following topics 

  • Attitudes and Beliefs about Human Development.
  • Gender and Sexual identity.
  • Counselling Models and Process of Change.
  • Understanding Trauma.
  • Understanding and working with Addictions/Dependency.
  • Transpersonal Perspective and Psychosynthesis.
  • Working with Conflict.
  • Practical experiential work using counselling skills to develop practice in the seminar/workshop on a weekly basis.

Associated Costs

A compulsory charge of £40 is made for this course to cover the COSCA workbook, COSCA professional registration, COSCA Certificate and associated handling costs.

Further Information & Notes

This course may not be suitable for anyone who is currently receiving counselling or has faced a serious emotional issue in the last six months.
Class size is limited to 15.  Students must be able to attend the same class at the same time  over 10 weeks. There is a strict attendance requirement of at least 85%. Students who miss more than two three-hour classes, for any reason, cannot pass the course.
Students will be required to pay the COSCA materials fee of £30 at the online store before the first class ad before your workbook will  be issued. You will also be required to pay £10.00 at the online store before your COSCA Certificate will be issued.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

1st Attempt: Assessment will be through continuous assessment (2000 word essay (25%), 300-500 word weekly learning log (25%) and oral assessment (50%).

Resit: Resubmission of essay (2000 words). There is no resit of learning logs or oral assessment. Failure of these elements will require repeat of the course.

Formative Assessment

Assessment will be through continuous assessment of oral practice and weekly learning logs.

Feedback

Weekly: A reflective learning log will be read by tutors on weekly submission and any necessary feedback or concerns communicated to students. At the end of the course1o logs will be graded linked to the CGS and weighted at 50% of the overall course mark.

Oral practice: Tutors give verbal feedback to the group and individuals in each of the 10 classes.

Oral participation: Tutors will give individual feedback as necessary during the course.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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