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ED50NC: DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLING PRACTICE (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 3rd 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) (Studied) 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 the philosophy, theory, and research concerning the person-centred approach.

• Develop the person-centred therapeutic attitudes of unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence in the counselling relationship.

• Develop a high level of awareness of competence in person-centred counselling relationships.

• Develop awareness of their professional developmental needs and of the importance of the full use of counselling supervision.

• Develop critical understanding of the place person-centred counselling occupies in the field of counselling and the role counselling plays in society as a whole.

• Understand the person-centred perspective on psychopathology and psychodiagnosis and the critiques of the application of the medical model to the field of counselling and psychotherapy.

• 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.

• Place individual counselling practice within a sound ethical framework as outlined in the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy and the COSCA Statement of Ethics and Code of 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 100
Assessment Weeks 17 Feedback Weeks 20

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Feedback Word Count 5000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Formative Assessment

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Learning Outcomes
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Resit Assessments

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Learning Outcomes
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ReflectionEvaluateCritical awareness of power dynamics within counselling relationships.
ProceduralApplyUnderstanding of and commitment to work within BACP and COSCA ethical frameworks.
ReflectionApplyAwareness and understanding of own self-concept and introjected values and how they impinge on the quality of the therapeutic relationship.
FactualUnderstandUnderstanding the relationship between other counselling orientations and the person-centred approach.

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