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PSY-30133 - Module Specification
School of Psychology
Faculty of Natural Sciences

For academic year: 2022/23 Last Updated: 19 January 2023

PSY-30133 - Personal and professional development in person-centred counselling
Coordinator: Jens Bakewell Tel: +44 1782 7 33585
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 6
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733736

Programme/Approved Electives for 2022/23

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2022/23

In this module, you will learn more about counselling skills and gain further experience of using them within the classroom, working with peers. You will be encouraged to reflect further upon your own personal and professional development, and to gain more important employability skills that will be useful if you later choose to pursue a counselling or therapeutic career, or if you choose any other pathway that involves working with others. Teaching sessions on the module will incorporate experiential learning and personal tutorials, alongside lectures and discussion activities, and you will engage in independent study to ensure that you develop a good understanding of the literature around counselling practice.

Aims
This module will build upon learning from PSY-30132, further facilitating students to develop their counselling skills, in a safe and structured environment. Students will focus on their own personal and professional development, to build the necessary therapeutic skills for working in helping relationships.

Talis Aspire Reading List
Any reading lists will be provided by the start of the course.
http://lists.lib.keele.ac.uk/modules/psy-30133/lists

Intended Learning Outcomes

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Study hours

40 hours structured contact time (30 hours of teaching, taught in ten blocks of three hours each combining discussion, lectures and experiential learning, plus 8 hours of personal development group work, plus four x 30 minutes of individual personal tutorials).
110 hours independent study, including 50 hours of preparation for the course work, and 20 hours for the reflective diary, plus further reading around module content.

School Rules

Note that students are barred from taking study abroad on this programme, as per the programme spec

Description of Module Assessment

1: Reflective Analysis weighted 20%
Reflective essay
Reflective essay, evaluating practice within the context of the recorded session and reflecting on their own development ¿ 1500 words Alongside the essay, students must submit an electronic video recording of peer counselling, comprising 15 mins recording. Students will be assessed on basic skills/threshold competence in counselling. Support with the assessment will be provided during taught sessions, and this assessment builds on that previously delivered in PSY-30132.

2: Case Study weighted 80%
Case study
2000 words ¿ applying counselling theory to a practical scenario, identifying a range of possible solutions and approaches, and providing a rationale for the approach they would take, with appropriate consideration of ethics.

Please note that for the 2022/23 Academic Year programmes may be adapted to operate in accordance with a flexible, digital approach. This means that there may be some changes made to how modules are delivered and assessed. The latest information will be provided to you by your School in module handbooks. We endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes and details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/student-terms-and-conditions/

Last Updated: 19 January 2023