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Postgraduate Course: DPsychotherapy Professional Accreditation and Personal Development (CNST12006)

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 12 (Postgraduate) Credits60
Home subject areaCounselling Studies Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis course will support students to apply for and gain their individual practitioner accreditation as a psychotherapist, which also includes the planning and execution of a personal development programme. Students will receive group and individual tutorial support in planning for and completing their accreditation application and the assessed course work consists of a full accreditation application.
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 Flexible, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Learn enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 05/08/2013
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 600 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 20, Fieldwork Hours 20, Formative Assessment Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 12, Placement Study Abroad Hours 40, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 468 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. By the end of the course students should be
- competent to practise independently, safely and accountably as psychotherapists within professional and ethical frameworks

2. - able to make highly skilled use of the therapeutic relationship and process, as well as of clinical supervision related to their practice
3. - equipped with a wide range of psychotherapeutic skills including listening, attunement, responding, assessing, contracting etc
4. - equipped with specific professional expertise at the forefront of one or more practice specialisms
- able to demonstrate originality and creativity in the development and application of new knowledge, understanding and practices to their practice as psychotherapists

5. - able to exercise a high level of autonomy and initiative in their professional practice
Assessment Information
The assignment for this course is a full psychotherapy accreditation application of approximately 12,000 - 15,000 words
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 organiserMr Seamus Prior
Tel: (0131 6)51 6599
Email: Seamus.Prior@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Sue Larsen
Tel: (0131 6)51 6671
Email: Sue.Larsen@ed.ac.uk
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