Module Information
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Patchwork Assessment (3000 words) | 70% |
| Semester Assessment | 2 x Observations (15 minutes each) | 20% |
| Semester Assessment | Weekly Reflection | 10% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Patchwork Assessment (3000 words) | 70% |
| Supplementary Assessment | 2 x Observations (15 minutes each) | 20% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Course reflection | 10% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
1. Select and apply appropriate strategies to facilitate counsellor-client communication in simulated counselling settings.
2. Show critical awareness of the values, virtues and ethics that underpin counselling practice.
3. Demonstrate the ability to engage in deep self-reflective practice.
4. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of integrative counselling therapies/approaches.
5. Demonstrate levels of personal qualities appropriate to the counselling relationship, including empathy, warmth and genuineness, reflexivity, active listener, congruence, and self-awareness.
Brief description
Building on Skills and Theory 1, this module will explore further counselling and psychotherapeutic theories and approaches, and continue to enable the development of counselling skills through experiential learning. This module is also designed to help you think creatively and critically, developing skills that will enable you to apply psychology and counselling to address a wide range of personal, professional and societal needs, and provide a basis for PG study and training in counselling.
Content
Critical reflective practice in counselling
Counselling skills II: communication, active listening, interpersonal skills and self-awareness.
Integrative counselling therapies
Therapy, ethics and human rights: global perspectives
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | Students will further develop and extend their awareness of the role of statistical evidence in the literature supporting elements of counselling practice. |
| Communication | The development of advanced communication skills in the counselling context as a key element of this module. The development of these skills is via lectures, and they are also practiced and developed during practical sessions and assessed via observations and weekly reflections. Students will reflect critically on their development in this domain during their supervisory sessions. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | The concept of the reflective practitioner and continuous professional development – and the skills required to support such practice with the counselling context – are embedded across this module. Students evidence their development as critical reflective practitioners by means of their weekly reflection assessment and supervisor meetings. |
| Information Technology | Students will develop advanced skills in accessing bibliographic resources in order to locate appropriate literature to support their studies. Students will also use ICT skills in developing their patchwork and weekly reflection assessments. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | This module focuses on advanced personal development, reflection and self-awareness that are primarily facilitated through weekly reflections, supervisor meetings, group activities and practical sessions. Thus, the applied nature of this module will enhance students’ understanding of counselling as providing them with the opportunity to begin to ‘try out’ a potential career path in the helping professions. |
| Problem solving | Each practical will enable learners to apply theoretical material from the lectures to be developed and applied critically to solve particular problems relating to counselling practice. This ability will be formally assessed via the observational component. |
| Research skills | Students will develop advanced skills in identify and accessing supporting literature to extend material introduced in lectures and facilitate the completion of coursework elements. These skills will be assessed in the patchwork assessment. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Students will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of advanced counselling-specific skills. These include advanced communication skills and critical interpersonal skills and self-awareness. The ability to adopt an integrative approach is also a key skill that will be developed during the course of the module. |
| Team work | Students will develop advanced team and group work skills by undertaking a range of group-based activities and reflecting critically on the nature of group dynamics, performance and their own role within the group structure. Also, due to the nature of the module, students will play an important role in developing a group identity and helping to create a supporting learning environment for their peers. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 5