Last modified: 31 May 2022 13:05
This course aims to enable students to develop the personal qualities and professional skills necessary for competent and reflective practitioners within a person centred framework. Self-awareness, counselling theory, practice and research are integrated to a level that enables course members to engage with therapeutic processes in a range of counselling relationships. Although the counselling programme is structured on a modular basis it is conceptualised as a comprehensive experience. The programme has four strands: Counselling Relationship and Therapeutic Process; Counselling Theory and Research; Personal Development; Professional Development. This course constitutes the 1st module of the counselling programme.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Session | Full Year | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Specifically, this course aims to enable students to:
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 60 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 21 | Feedback Weeks | 25 | |
| Feedback | Word Count | 3500 | ||
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 17 | Feedback Weeks | 21 | |
| Feedback | Word Count | 2500 | ||
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| Assessment Type | Formative | Weighting | 0 | |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Apply | Ability to implement the person-centred therapeutic attitudes of unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence in the counselling relationship. |
| Procedural | Apply | Ability to establish and maintain appropriate professional boundaries. |
| Factual | Understand | Development of an in-depth and critical understanding of Carl Rogers' theory of therapy and personality change. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Ability to use feedback effectively to identify areas for further development. |
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