Postgraduate Course: Negotiating Identities in Transition (CNST11027)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 40 |
| Home subject area | Counselling Studies |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | 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 (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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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) |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
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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
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mrs Connie Johnson
Tel: (0131 6)50 9889
Email: connie.johnson@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sue Larsen
Tel: (0131 6)51 6671
Email: Sue.Larsen@ed.ac.uk |
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