Counselling Practice and Process Course 3 (P02385)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HEA-P-CPPC2

This course runs through the whole of Year 3 of the Master of Counselling programme. It is the context in which students engage in in-depth discussion and analysis of their continuing counselling practice with clients. The aim of this course is to facilitate students to consolidate their learning from their counselling practice so that they may qualify as diploma counsellors and take up post-qualifying positions as reflective, self-aware, safe, accountable and ethical counselling opractitioners, working from a clear theoretical base.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Successful completion of Counselling Practice and Process Course 2

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Full Year (Blocks 1-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) 30 minutes per week for 25 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Wednesday	16:10	17:00	Central
Lecture	Wednesday	17:10	18:00	Central

? Additional Class Information : Class session actually runs from 16.45 to 18.15

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students should have
- a clear assessment of their readiness and practise as a reflective, self-aware, safe, accountable and ethical counsellor, integrating feedback, assessment and guidance regarding their counselling practice from tutors, supervisors and peers
- a clear assessment of their strengths and learning and support needs in relation to their ability to maintain, develop and conclude effective counselling relationships with clients
- the capacity to identify and reflect on the ethical and other challenges they have faced in their counselling practice placement and to analyse and assess how they have managed these
- the capacity to analyse and reflect critically on issues of difference, diversity and power in relation to their counselling practice, demonstrating their ability to counter discrimination and to act to empower clients
- the capacity to conceptualise, analyse and present the development and impact of therapeutic relationships with reference to their own counselling practice with individual clients

Assessment Information

Professional portfolio 3: logs and reports equivalent to 4,000 words. The portfolio also requires a log of the 200 counselling hours undertaken, the 40 supervision hours and the 14 hours of personal tutorials. Final reports, written collaboratively with the placement supervisor and the personal tutor, assessing the students readiness to qualify, are also included.