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ED50NA: FOUNDATIONS OF PERSON-CENTRED COUNSELLING (2023-2024)

Last modified: 05 Oct 2023 08:46


Course Overview

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.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Full Year Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Kate Smith

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

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Either Counselling Skills (CO) or Education (ED) (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Specifically, this course aims to enable students to:

  • Understand Carl Rogers' theory of therapy and personality change.
  • Develop the person-centred therapeutic attitudes of unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence in the counselling relationship.
  • Develop basic competence in person-centred counselling relationships.
  • Evaluate the importance of personal development in relation to training as a person-centred counsellor.
  • Consider the effect of personal experience, values, and attitudes on the counsellor's practice.

Contact Teaching Time

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

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 60
Assessment Weeks 19 Feedback Weeks 21

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Feedback Word Count 3500
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 40
Assessment Weeks 15 Feedback Weeks 18

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Feedback Word Count 2500
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Formative Assessment

Practice Readiness statement

Assessment Type Formative Weighting 0
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ReflectionEvaluateAbility to use feedback effectively to identify areas for further development.
ConceptualApplyAbility to implement the person-centred therapeutic attitudes of unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence in the counselling relationship.
ProceduralApplyAbility to establish and maintain appropriate professional boundaries.
FactualUnderstandDevelopment of an in-depth and critical understanding of Carl Rogers' theory of therapy and personality change.

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