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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

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DRPS : DPTs : School of Health in Social Science DPTs

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Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

1. All courses in Year 1, including Readiness for Counselling Training (CNST11093) must be passed to progress to Year 2 of the programme.
2. Exit award of PG Cert Counselling Studies if exiting at end of Year 1.

Compulsory courses

Ethics, Boundaries and Supervision

Listening, Attunement and Empathy

Self, Others and Society

Readiness for Counselling Training

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

1. Readiness for Counselling Practice (CNST11098) must be passed in order to commence Counselling and Psychotherapy Placement 1A (CNST12021).
2. Counselling and Psychotherapy Placement 1A (CNST12021) must be passed to allow progression to Year 3 of the programme.

Compulsory courses

The Counselling Relationship: Theory, Practice and Process (MCouns)

Developing Narratives of Self

The Group in the Development of the Self and Others : A Person-Centred Perspective (MCouns)

Difference, diversity and power in counselling practice (20 credits)

Counselling and Psychotherapy Placement 1A

Counselling and Psychotherapy Placement 1B

Readiness for Counselling Practice

Year 3 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

From Two Person to Three Person to the Group: A Psychodynamic Perspective

Psychological vulnerabilities and distress in counselling practice

Transitions, Endings and Beginnings

Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice 2

Counselling and Psychotherapy Placement 2

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