Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:07
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.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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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.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 40 | Feedback Weeks | 43 | |
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Word Count: 5,000 Process analysis of key episodes within a recorded counselling session. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Recognise and respond to a range of client problems in therapy |
| Procedural | Create | Creating and maintaining productive therapeutic relationships |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Identifying and resolving ethical dilemmas |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Evaluating progress and outcome in therapy |
| Assessment Type | Formative | Weighting | ||
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
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. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 49 | Feedback Weeks | 52 | |
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be provided by tutors |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Evaluate | Evaluating progress and outcome in therapy |
| Procedural | Create | Creating and maintaining productive therapeutic relationships |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Identifying and resolving ethical dilemmas |
| Conceptual | Analyse | Recognise and respond to a range of client problems in therapy |
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