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ED506Q: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN COUNSELLING (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:07


Course Overview

This course explores the use of supervision, consultation, peer support, and attention to personal well-being, in relation to the demands of working with clients. Topics covered include models of supervision, the use of deliberate practice to develop competence, and strategies for handling countertransference responses to clients, ruptures in the therapeutic alliance, ethical dilemmas, and organisational culture. The course is delivered through small professional practice groups in which students work together, supported by a tutor, to reflect on their counselling practice.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Kate Smith

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

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

The primary focus of this course is to provide opportunities for groups of students to receive support for their work with clients, in addition to individual supervision required by the placement agency.  The course is delivered through a combination of workshops, and small professional practice groups in which students work together with a tutor, to reflect on their counselling practice. Topics explored will cover such areas as supervisory relationships, the use of deliberate practice to develop competence, using routine outcome measures to elicit client feedback, strategies for handling countertransference responses to clients, ruptures in the therapeutic alliance, ethical dilemmas, and liaison with other services and practitioners.


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

Process Analysis

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks 17 Feedback Weeks 20

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Word Count: 5,000

Process analysis of key episodes within a recorded counselling session.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseRecognise and respond to a range of client problems in therapy
ProceduralCreateCreating and maintaining productive therapeutic relationships
ProceduralEvaluateEvaluating progress and outcome in therapy
ProceduralEvaluateIdentifying and resolving ethical dilemmas

Formative Assessment

Exercises

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Formative exercises which will prepare students for the Process Analysis exercise include the systematic audio recording of client work, analysis of the therapy process through the pluralistic competencies framework scale, group and independent supervision, process and outcome monitoring of client work and client feedback.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Resit Assessments

Resit failed element in same format

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks 19 Feedback Weeks 22

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Written feedback will be provided by tutors

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralEvaluateEvaluating progress and outcome in therapy
ProceduralCreateCreating and maintaining productive therapeutic relationships
ProceduralEvaluateIdentifying and resolving ethical dilemmas
ConceptualAnalyseRecognise and respond to a range of client problems in therapy

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