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This course aims to enable students to develop the personal qualities and professional skills necessary for competent and reflective practitioners within a person centred framework. Self-awareness, counselling theory, practice and research are integrated to a level that enables course members to engage with therapeutic processes in a range of counselling relationships. Although the counselling programme is structured on a modular basis it is conceptualised as a comprehensive experience. The programme has four strands: Counselling Relationship and Therapeutic Process; Counselling Theory and Research; Personal Development; Professional Development. This course constitutes the 4th module of the counselling programme.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Old Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course will introduce the topic of research in the context of counselling. The following questions will be addressed: What is research? How and why might counsellors do and use research? What does research tell us? How is research read critically? Asking questions such as: How can the results be generalised? Are there limitations (such as the way the sample was selected)? Are the results reliable? How adequate or convincing is the way in which concepts used in the research are applied? Are there serious omissions in the work? Are there other ways of explaining the results of the study? Are the methods used appropriate? How is a literature search undertaken? What is a good research question? How can answers be found? What methodologies are relevant to the field of counselling research? How are these located in terms of disciplinary perspectives? What kind of ethical considerations are important in counselling research? How can the results of research be reported?
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
1st attempt: Formative Assessment: Self-appraisal statement Summative assessment: 1 written assignment (4500 words) Resit: There will be one opportunity to resubmit the work completed, as revised to take account of identified inadequacies in the original.
There are no assessments for this course.
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