CO2003: A PERSON CENTRED APPROACH TO HELPING RELATIONSHIPS (2019-2020)

Last modified: 25 Sep 2019 09:58

Course Overview

This course provides students the opportunity to develop and apply person-centred counselling and
interpersonal skills to non-counselling settings; it can also be a step towards
Diploma training and a career in counselling. The course seeks to enhance participants’ personal and professional interaction
with others and their own reflective practice. This is an opportunity for people from a wide range of backgrounds to learn experientially together in a group setting.

Participants will be able to explore the
connection of self-awareness and self-acceptance to practice in the process of
the person-centred approach.

See 'Further Information and Notes'.

Course Details

Study Type	Undergraduate	Level	2
Session	First Sub Session	Credit Points	15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Mrs Anne Smith

Qualification Prerequisites

Either Programme Level 1 or Programme Level 2

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

One of CO1501 Counselling Skills 2 (Passed) or CO1511 Counselling Skills 2 (Evening) (Passed) or KL151R Counselling Skills 2 (Passed) or KL151X Counselling Skills 2 (Passed)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

CO2013 A Person Centred Approach to Helping Relationships (Eve) (Studied)
CO2502 A Person Centred Approach to Helping Relationships (Studied)
KL2017 A Person Centred Approach to Helping Relationships (Studied)
KL2517 A Person Centred Approach to Helping Relationships (Studied)

Are there a limited number of places available?

Course Description

The course brings together people from a wide range of backgrounds to learn experientially together in a group setting. Participants will be able to explore the connection of self-awareness and self-acceptance to practice in the process of the person-centred approach. The content of the course includes:

An overview of the
key concepts of the person-centred approach: therapist attitudes, the
therapeutic conditions, theory of self.

Rogers Personality
Theory: self-awareness and developing more effective personal and social
relationships.

The need for the
person-centred core conditions as the basis of the helping relationship:
empathy, unconditional positive regard and congruence. What difference do
these qualities make and how can they be developed?

Encounter:
experiencing and reflecting on the process of awareness of self and others
in the group setting.

Transition theory: a
historical overview. Change and self-acceptance. How can we relate the
theory to personal life experience?

Ethical
considerations: relating difficult moral questions that arise for the
practitioner of counselling skills/helper to an ethical framework.

Different dimensions
within a person-centred approach: working at relational depth, focusing on the
spiritual dimension, how these may be relevant to individual working contexts.

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

There are no assessments for this course.

Formative Assessment