PSY-40065 - 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 Practicum II Module will enable you to reflect on your practice and personal development, as a Person-centred Trainee Therapist. Through your engagement in Personal Therapy and Supervised Counselling Practice with members of the Public, you will have opportunities to consider how your work as a therapist might impact on clients, yourself and the relationships between you. Areas for development as well as reflections on your strengths as a Trainee Person-centred Therapist, will be reflected in your Supervision Reports. You will continue to apply your knowledge of how to work within the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions in the context of a Counselling Placement.

The Practicum Part 2 module builds on the learning, and personal and professional development achieved in Practicum Part 1. It aims to help students further 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 an ability to critically reflect on personal and professional practice-related activities, and how these might have an effect on client, counsellor and the therapeutic relationship: 1,3
Demonstrate a thorough applied understanding of the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions, and the associated key professional and personal qualities and attributes: 1,2,3
Demonstrate and critically reflect on your growth in self-knowledge and self-awareness, commenting on your enhanced interpersonal skills as a developing practitioner: 1
Critically reflect on your counselling practice and your ability to form a therapeutic relationship: 1

Study hours

40 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 group will vary week to week over semesters 1 and 2 of the programme.
40 hours of assessment and private study, including 10 hours of personal therapy, undertaking skills practice with peers and preparing/writing up reflection on use of supervision. Also included in the 40 hours of private study are a minimum 9 hours of clinical supervision. The clinical supervision is part of Assessment 3; it is an external supervisor who meets regularly with the student and supervises the student's work. This supervision forms the basis of the supervision reports, which comprise part of this assessment.
70 hours of supervised practice on placement

School Rules

Barred combo: PSY-40069

Description of Module Assessment