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ED556N: THERAPEUTIC PROCESS IN PLURALISTIC COUNSELLING (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:09


Course Overview

This course looks at how to combine key skills and concepts when working with clients to support them in accomplishing their therapeutic goals. The course explores key pluralistic therapeutic strategies and processes in relation to knowledge from theory, practical skills, personal and professional development, and research.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Kate Smith

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

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course emphasises the development of a capability to understand and use pluralistic therapeutic processes associated with beginning and ending therapy, broaching difference, identifying therapeutic goals and tasks, engaging client preferences, collaborative assessment and case formulation, selecting and implementing therapeutic activities and methods, using feedback to keep therapy on track, activating the client’s cultural resources, and working together to manage risk. Competencies associated with preparation for entering a placement will be facilitated through exploration of pluralistic perspective on personal and professional boundaries, the use of on-line and AI-supported modes of practice, implications of medication use and psychiatric diagnosis.


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

Preparation for Practice Learning Journal

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Word Count: 2,000

Critical reflexive account of student learning in relation to readiness to enter practice.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandUnderstanding the process of change in counselling
FactualEvaluatePossess applied therapeutic skills and deploy professional knowledge at a standard required to enter practice with clients

Skills Competence Exam

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Demonstration of counselling skills, in video-recorded session with standard client.

The session will be of a triad (students taking the role of client, therapist, and observer), the recorded session should be between 20-30 minutes and involve the student (as therapist) facilitating an exploratory conversation with the client with clear beginning, middle, and ending interactions.

Written feedback will be provided

 

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
FactualEvaluatePossess applied therapeutic skills and deploy professional knowledge at a standard required to enter practice with clients
ProceduralApplyUsing pluralistic techniques and strategies to facilitate client change
ReflectionEvaluateBeing responsive to client subjective experience, identity, directionality, and intersecting cultural identities

Oral Presentation: Individual

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Length: 30 minutes

Powerpoint presentation to the class group, offering a critical analysis of good professional practice or practice guidelines in relation to one aspect of pluralistic practice (e.g., initial client assessment, case formulation, using feedback, etc.).

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandUnderstanding the process of change in counselling
ProceduralApplyUsing pluralistic techniques and strategies to facilitate client change

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Resit failed element in same format

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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
FactualEvaluatePossess applied therapeutic skills and deploy professional knowledge at a standard required to enter practice with clients
ConceptualUnderstandUnderstanding the process of change in counselling
ReflectionEvaluateBeing responsive to client subjective experience, identity, directionality, and intersecting cultural identities
ProceduralApplyUsing pluralistic techniques and strategies to facilitate client change

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