Undergraduate Course: Foundations of Counselling and Psychotherapy 3 (10 credit points) (LLLD07004)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This is a for-credit coruse offered by the Office of Lifelong Learning (OLL): only students registered with OLL should be enrolled.
This course aims to survey the many different theories and approaches of counselling and psychotherapy. The emphasis is on theory and learning with some opportunities for practical work and exploring personal experience (within appropriate boundaries).
Course 3 covers Humanistic approaches: Gestalt therapy, transactional analysis, Yalom, Art therapy, transpersonal therapy, group and family therapy. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
Describe the framework for counselling - boundaries, disclosure, confidentiality, listening skills
Provide an overview of the field of humanistic counselling today;
Outline humanistic approaches to counselling;
Outline some key concepts in Gestalt counselling;
Outline the Transactional Analysis model and outline the approach of Heimler;
Apply some of these to their own development, and to everyday interactions to some extent.
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Reading List
McLeod, J., 2009. An Introduction to Counselling. 4th ed. Maidenhead, Berks: Open University Press.
Additional texts will be recommended by the tutor throughout the course.
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Additional Information
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr James Mooney
Tel: (0131 6)51 6079
Email: james.mooney@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Kameliya Skerleva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Kameliya.Skerleva@ed.ac.uk |
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