PSY-40061 - 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

The Integration in Counselling module will invite you to critically explore and evaluate current issues and topics in counselling and psychotherapy, while demonstrating your understanding of how these issues might be understood through or how they might challenge person-centred counselling theory and counselling research. You will have the opportunity to identify a personal or professional area of interest to you and to critically discuss how this relates to person-centred theory, therapeutic practice and the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions. Through lectures, small group work and experiential exercises, you will be invited to engage in discussions and to reflect on how you are integrating your learning into your life and practice as a trainee therapist, while identifying areas for further learning and development.

This module aims to provide students with a good understanding of a range of therapeutic and practice related issues. It also aims to encourage students to gain knowledge of and critically evaluate therapeutic theories alongside the programme's core (person-centred) model, and to reflect on a variety of presenting issues and how counselling may be used as a therapeutic intervention.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Identify, and critically explore the integration of a personal or professional area of interest, alongside person-centred theory: 1
Identify, and critically explore the integration of a personal or professional area of interest, alongside person-centred practice: 1
Demonstrate the acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge informed by research, and the ability to relate this to therapeutic practice: 1
Demonstrate a knowledge of how the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions applies to the chosen personal or professional area of interest: 1

Study hours

60 hours in-situ/asynchronous (interactive whole group lectures and time reflecting on the issues raised in lectures in small groups. The amount of time in lectures and small groups will vary week to week (as is pertinent to counsellor training)
90 hours of independent study preparing for and writing the 3,000 word essay or developing the recorded presentation

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment