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PSY-40054 - Module Specification
School of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 24 December 2024

PSY-40054 - Personal and Professional Development and Reflexivity
Coordinator: Matthew Leavesley
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 7
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733928

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

This module will introduce you to a range of professional issues, practice approaches and theories to enhance your understanding of the practice and theory of counselling, through class teaching, group discussion and working with peers and tutors. It will also provide you with the opportunity to develop self-awareness and an enhanced ability to offer the Rogerian core conditions, in preparation for work with clients. Throughout the module, you will be invited to reflect on your own personal and professional development, and to engage in reflexivity in relation to your research project.

Aims
To support the personal and professional development of full-time and part-time MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy students, as required by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

Talis Aspire Reading List
Any reading lists will be provided by the start of the course.
http://lists.lib.keele.ac.uk/modules/psy-40054/lists

Intended Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate the ability to critically reflect on the self-knowledge and self-awareness you have gained as a developing practitioner: 1
Demonstrate an ability to identify and critically reflect on any changes in your personal growth and development: 1
Critically reflect on your development of key person-centred therapeutic attitudes (such as empathy, UPR and congruence) and how this relates to you personally and professionally: 1
Demonstrate the acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge informed by counselling theory and/or research and the ability to relate this to therapeutic practice: 1
Demonstrate the key professional and personal qualities and attributes in relation to self, in line with the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions, through critical reflection: 1

Study hours

12 x 5 hours (60 in-situ hours total) interactive lectures or workshops.
90 hours private study and reflection, including completion of formative reflective diary.

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Assignment weighted 100%
3,000 word assignment or 20 minute recorded presentation


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: 24 December 2024