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PSY-30132 - Module Specification
School of Psychology
Faculty of Natural Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 21 November 2024

PSY-30132 - Counselling skills and perspectives
Coordinator: Kerese Collins
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 6
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733736

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

In this module, you will begin to learn about basic, practical counselling skills and to gain experience of using them within the classroom, working with peers. At the same time, you will be encouraged to reflect upon your own personal and professional development. This means that the module can help you to develop 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 facilitate students in developing a range of basic counselling skills, in a safe and structured environment, and will help them to focus on their own personal and professional development.

Talis Aspire Reading List
Any reading lists will be provided by the start of the course.
http://lists.lib.keele.ac.uk/modules/psy-30132/lists

Intended Learning Outcomes

provide evidence of adherence to the BACP ethical framework: 1,2
engage with personal development to enhance self-awareness and personal growth: 1,2
practice methods and techniques of counselling within a safe, structured environment: 1,2
critically evaluate information and apply counselling knowledge to problem solving activities: 1

Study hours

33 hours structured of contact time combining discussion, lectures, experiential learning and tutorials.
117 hours independent study dedicated to self-directed and asynchronous learning based on weekly assigned reading and exercises which students would be expected to complete between teaching sessions. Independent study hours will also be used for assignment preparation.

School Rules

Note that students on this programme are disallowed from taking a semester study abroad, as per the programme spec.

Description of Module Assessment

1: Assignment weighted 100%
Reflective Self-Study


2: Practice Based Assessment weighted 0%
Counselling Log


The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. 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/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 21 November 2024