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Postgraduate Course: Negotiating Identities in Transition (CNST11027)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Health in Social Science CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits40
Home subject areaCounselling Studies Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis 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 (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Learn enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Class Delivery Information Class time actually runs from 1.30 to 4.30pm
Course Start Date 13/01/2014
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Assessment Methods
No Exam Information
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.
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMrs Connie Johnson
Tel: (0131 6)50 9889
Email: connie.johnson@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Sue Larsen
Tel: (0131 6)51 6671
Email: Sue.Larsen@ed.ac.uk
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