Negotiating Identities in Transition (P02384)

? Credit Points : 40 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HEA-P-CPPC1

This course explores the theme of negotiating identities in transition as students are deepening their knowledge and experience of therapeutic practice, coming to the end of their professional training in counselling and preparing themselves for working as qualified counsellors. Students consolidate their knowledge of the central tasks of counselling in facilitating change and growth in clients and examine the process of the formation of new and altered identities through integrating personal experience with professional counselling practice. Theories of attachment, separation and loss, endings and beginnings, change and transition will be revisited. The course analyses counselling as a contemporary social phenomenon, locating counselling within specific social, cultural and political contexts. Students are required to define their own professional, theoretical and political orientations as practising counsellors. The course runs alongside the counselling practice-focussed course, Counselling Practice and Process 3, which takes place from 4.45 to 6.15pm on the same days.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Successful completion of Year 2 of the Master of Counselling programme and the first course of Year 3

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Counselling Studies, (School of Health in Social Science, Schedule D)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 15 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Wednesday	13:30	15:30	Central
Lecture	Wednesday	16:10	17:00	Central

? Additional Class Information : Class time actually runs from 1.30 to 4.30pm

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

- to explore experientially and theoretically the theme of negotiating identities in transition
- to relate this theme to the totality of the counselling relationship, to therapeutic processes and to personal experience
- to deepen their awareness of the processes of change and growth, loss and separation, involved in making transitions
- to identify and reflect upon the personal and interpersonal tasks involved in ending the professional training phase of the programme.
- to evaluate personal and professional learning, establishing a clear sense of their orientation as a counselling practitioner.

Assessment Information

One 8,000 to 10,000 summative essay, designed to assess learning throughout the two years of the professional training phase in relation to the five strands of theoretical engagement, practices and processes of counselling, self and other awareness, professional and socio-cultural issues and research themes and debates. It includes a self-assessment of learning in relation to each of these five strands and is illustrated with reference to case examples from counselling practice.