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

Postgraduate Course: Between Counselling and Research 1: Approaches, Issues and Debates (L12) (CNST12007)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Health in Social Science CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 12 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course provides students, who may or may not be counselling practitioners with an overview of key approaches for research relevant to counselling and related practices. Emphasis will be given to the relevance of a variety of disciplinary perspectives, to the distinction between "insider" and "outsider" perspectives, and to the relationship between research and reflective counselling practice.
Course description This course provides students with an opportunity to immerse themselves in key debates within qualitative inquiry as they relate, in particular to research in counselling, psychotherapy, and related practices and professions.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2019/20, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 1
Course Start Date 16/09/2019
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 176 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) One 4,000 to 5,000 word essay on a topic agreed with the course organiser
Feedback Formative feedback will be given when students present their work-in-progress current thoughts, plans, and concerns to their seminar group peers and tutor.

Summative feedback will be given on the course paper via Learn.
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Identify and conceptualise key research ontologies, epistemologies and methodologies relevant to counselling and related practices, including the influence of different disciplinary perspectives.
  2. Conceptualise the relationship between counselling practice and research practice in relation to epistemological and ethical debates.
  3. Formulate, justify and criticise focused research questions relevant to counselling and related practices.
  4. Critically assess the relevance of specialist research for the practice and provision of counselling and related practices.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Identify, conceptualise and define new and abstract problems and issues.

Critically review, consolidate and extend knowledge, skills, practices and thinking in a subject/discipline/sector.

Communicate with peers and specialists.

Take responsibility for own work.

Exercise substantial autonomy and initiative in professional and equivalent activities.
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Jonathan Wyatt
Tel: (0131 6)51 3974
Email: Jonathan.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Sanni Ahonen
Tel: (0131 6)50 3890
Email: sanni.ahonen@ed.ac.uk
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