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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.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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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.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 25 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 18 | Feedback Weeks | 21 | |
| Feedback |
Word Count: 2,000 Critical reflexive account of student learning in relation to readiness to enter practice. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | Understanding the process of change in counselling |
| Factual | Evaluate | Possess applied therapeutic skills and deploy professional knowledge at a standard required to enter practice with clients |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 25 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 17 | Feedback Weeks | 20 | |
| Feedback |
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
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Factual | Evaluate | Possess applied therapeutic skills and deploy professional knowledge at a standard required to enter practice with clients |
| Procedural | Apply | Using pluralistic techniques and strategies to facilitate client change |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Being responsive to client subjective experience, identity, directionality, and intersecting cultural identities |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 16 | Feedback Weeks | 19 | |
| Feedback |
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.). |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | Understanding the process of change in counselling |
| Procedural | Apply | Using pluralistic techniques and strategies to facilitate client change |
There are no assessments for this course.
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Factual | Evaluate | Possess applied therapeutic skills and deploy professional knowledge at a standard required to enter practice with clients |
| Conceptual | Understand | Understanding the process of change in counselling |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Being responsive to client subjective experience, identity, directionality, and intersecting cultural identities |
| Procedural | Apply | Using pluralistic techniques and strategies to facilitate client change |
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