Postgraduate Course: Counselling and Psychotherapy Placement 3 (CNST12016)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Placement |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 12 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Counselling Studies |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course requires the completion of a further 150 hours of psychotherapy practice and 30 hours of supervision. Along with the DPsychotherapy Professional Accreditation and Personal Development course, this course completes the professional practice components of the Doctorate in Psychotherapy and Counselling. At this stage, students are required to demonstrate sophisticated clinical skills and decision-making, specialist expertise in one or more areas of practice, originality and creativity in the application of knowledge and skills to their therapeutic practice, and the ability to critically analyse their practice with reference to relevant theoretical concepts and research findings. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Full Year, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
15/09/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Fieldwork Hours 150,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
46 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. By the end of the course students will have the capacity:
To practise as a reflective, self-aware, safe, accountable and ethical counselling practitioner, working with a broad range of clients, including clients who have experienced moderate to severe psychological difficulties.
2. To practise with a high level of autonomy and initiative, including in their use of supervision and in collaborations with professional colleagues. |
Assessment Information
Students are active partners in their placement arrangements. They negotiate the particular learning needs for their placements with placement managers and academic staff and have multiple opportunities to offer feedback and evaluate their placement experience.
Professional partners - placement managers, professional mentors and practice supervisors - also meet regularly with academic staff to review placements and how they work to provide suitable practice learning opportunities for students.
The Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice Development Manager (based in the University) oversees the approval process for placements and practice supervisors, consults with students on their placement choices and experiences and works to resolve any problems or difficulties that arise in placement arrangements.
Professional practice is assessed according to professional competency framework for accredited practitioners as stipulated by the UK professional bodies. Students receive formative and summative assessment through practice supervision and work with professional partners, supported by programme tutors. Successful completion of practice hours is confirmed by professional partners (agency managers, professional mentors and practice supervisors) and programme tutors. Students maintain a professional log of all practice hours, and individual and group supervision meetings.
The Placement courses are assessed as PASS/FAIL only.
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
This course constitutes the post-qualification and pre-accreditation practice component of the DPsychotherapy. It requires a further 150 hours of therapeutic practice with clients in one or more placement settings under suitable practice supervision. |
| Syllabus |
The aim of this course is to facilitate students to consolidate their learning from their practice so that they may qualify as accredited counsellors and psychotherapists and take up post-qualifying positions as reflective, self-aware, safe, accountable, ethical and scholarly psychotherapy practitioners, working within one or more specialist areas from a clear theoretical and research base. |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Students' reading will be focused in relation to their specific placement work, guided by both academic tutors and professional mentors and supervisors. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
150 client practice hours, related practice supervision hours and other administrative, induction and training hours as required by the placement.
Placement practice, supervision and training, with associated on-programme teaching and learning. |
| Keywords | Counselling Psychotherapy Placement |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Seamus Prior
Tel: (0131 6)51 6599
Email: Seamus.Prior@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sue Larsen
Tel: (0131 6)51 6671
Email: Sue.Larsen@ed.ac.uk |
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