PSY-40023 - Module Specification
School of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine & Health 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

This module introduces the student to the nature of difference, power and culture and how they may present within the therapeutic relationship and how this links to the student's own personal and professional development

To enable students to understand issues of power, culture and difference and how they may present within the counselling relationship, and how these may be therapeutically worked with.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Critically demonstrate an understanding of how counselling, as a form of helping, is socially and culturally situated: 1
Critically discuss how power dynamics and culture(s), within and outside of the person-centred counselling relationship, may impact on the lives and growth of individuals: 1
Synthesise the issues involved in working with difference and diversity within the person-centred counselling relationship, and the wider counselling profession: 1
Demonstrate an understanding of positionality, intersectionality, power dynamics and social justice, and how these might impact on clients, counsellors, the therapeutic relationship and the wider counselling profession: 1
Illustrate an understanding of ethics and professional standards linked to power, culture and difference, with reference to the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions: 1

Study hours

Active learning hours - 80 in-situ (lectures and experiential group work)
Independent study hours - 220
(preparing and completing assessed work and continued private study into this domain and how it relates to counsellor training and practice).

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment