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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Health in Social Science : Counselling Studies

Postgraduate Course: Transitions, Endings and Beginnings (CNST12012)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Health in Social Science CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 12 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course explores the theme of transitions, endings and beginnings 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.
Course description 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.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Flexible
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 10, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 166 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) One 4,000 to 5,000 summative essay, designed to assess learning through the preceding 18 months of professional training 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.
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. explore experientially and theoretically the theme of negotiating identities in transition
  2. relate this theme to the totality of the counselling relationship, to therapeutic processes and to personal experience
  3. demonstrate a critical understanding and awareness of the processes of change and growth, loss and separation, involved in making transitions
  4. identify, reflect upon and develop a focused and specialist analysis of the personal and interpersonal tasks involved in completing a professional training in counselling and / or psychotherapy
  5. evaluate personal and professional learning, establishing a clear sense of their orientation as a counselling or psychotherapy practitioner
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
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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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