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CO102B: INTRODUCTION TO LISTENING SKILLS 2: THEORETICAL APPROACHES (2020-2021)

Last modified: 02 Sep 2020 16:10


Course Overview

Our counselling and listening skills courses provide comprehensive training for use in many settings where effective communication is essential. This is also a suitable foundation for further training in the areas of counselling and psychotherapy. This is the second of four courses that adhere to BACP’s Counselling skills competence framework; ensuring high standards. BACP is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy the largest professional body in the UK.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 1
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Mrs Susan Black

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Either Programme Level 1 or Programme Level 2
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What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

  • Development of different approaches
  • CBT overview – Ants and ABCDE
  • Power and the helping relationship
  • Boundaries and Limitations – online and offline
  • Person Centred overview - CoWs
  • Importance of self-awareness
  • Psychodynamic overview – Defence Mechanisms
  • Attachment theory
  • Pluralistic / Integrative overview – Timeline and Framework

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Skill Practice

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Formative Assessment

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Resit Assessments

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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ReflectionEvaluateParticipants should be able to evidence an understanding of boundaries and limitations within a supportive relationship, both face=to-face and online
ConceptualUnderstandParticipants should be aware of the importance of ethics and be able to explain the use and abuse of power, within ethical frameworks.
ConceptualApplyParticipants should understand human emotional attachment and how this relates to poor mental health
ProceduralApplyParticipants should be aware of, and able to put into practice, the skills required to be an effective listener, showing an ability to apply tools from the different modalities
FactualUnderstandParticipants should understand the basic tenets of the four main theoretical approaches (Person-Centred, Psychodynamic, Integrative, Cognitive Behavioural)

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