Postgraduate Course: Counselling Practice and Process Course 3 (CNST11028)
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 | 20 |
| Home subject area | Counselling Studies |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | 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. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Full Year, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Class Delivery Information |
Class session actually runs from 16.45 to 18.15 |
| Course Start Date |
16/09/2013 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities |
| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
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| No Exam Information |
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
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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 student=s readiness to qualify, are also included. |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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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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