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

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

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.

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.

Intended Learning Outcomes

provide evidence in both practical and written work 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 counselling practice activities: 2
demonstrate competence in basic counselling skills, in practice sessions with peers, through skills practice which is informed by person-centred theoretical and practical concepts: 1,2

Study hours

33 hours structured contact time combining discussion, lectures and experiential learning. Students will participate in personal development group work, skills practice with peers and tutorials.
117 hours independent study dedicated to self-directed learning and assignment preparation. Students will engage in asynchronous learning based on assigned reading and other learning activities they will be required to complete between teaching sessions.

School Rules

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

Description of Module Assessment