PSY-40063 - 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

Through this module, you will demonstrate and apply your knowledge of person-centred theory and practice through observations of your counselling with peers, and engagement with personal therapy. Additionally, the Supervised Counselling Placement will provide opportunities for reflection on your personal and professional qualities as a developing practitioner, how you work within the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions within an organisational context, and to understand how you might like to work as a qualified counsellor.

This module aims to help students develop the practical skills, the theoretical understanding of practice issues, the personal and professional qualities and attributes, the self awareness and the experience on placement necessary to become a qualified counsellor.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate key person-centred therapeutic skills in counselling practice, and an ability to manage the therapeutic process: 1,2,3,5,6
Demonstrate understanding of safe and ethical practice in line with the BACP's Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions: 1,2,3,4,5,6
Demonstrate the ability to build a relationship characterised by the 6 Necessary and Sufficient conditions: 1,2,3,5,6
Identify, critically evaluate and reflect on person-centred counselling theory, and how this has been applied in practice: 2,3
Critically reflect on positionality, intersectionality, power dynamics and social justice, and how these need to be considered in the therapeutic relationship and the wider counselling profession: 2,3

Study hours

70 hours in-situ contact time, comprising work in small skills group which includes: observed skills practice; formative feedback on practice; teaching input on and discussion of/reflection on professional and practice issues. The time in small skills groups will vary week to week over semesters 1 and 2 of the programme.
50 hours of private study, comprising carrying out at least 25 skills practice sessions with peers, and preparation for/writing up of evaluation assignment; 4 hours of clinical supervision; and 10 hours of evidenced personal therapy.
30 hours of Supervised Counselling Practice on placement.

School Rules

Barred module: PSY-40067

Description of Module Assessment