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PSY-30133 - Module Specification
School of Psychology
Faculty of Natural Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 27 April 2024

PSY-30133 - Personal and professional development in person-centred counselling
Coordinator: Julie Hulme Tel: +44 1782 7 34439
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 6
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733736

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

In this module, you will learn more about counselling skills and gain further experience of using them within the classroom, working with peers. You will be encouraged to reflect further upon your own personal and professional development, and to gain more important employability skills that will be useful if you later choose to pursue a counselling or therapeutic career, or if you choose any other pathway that involves working with others. Teaching sessions on the module will incorporate experiential learning and personal tutorials, alongside lectures and discussion activities, and you will engage in independent study to ensure that you develop a good understanding of the literature around counselling practice.

Aims
This module will build upon learning from PSY-30132, further facilitating students to develop their counselling skills, in a safe and structured environment. Students will focus on their own personal and professional development, to build the necessary therapeutic skills for working in helping relationships.

Talis Aspire Reading List
Any reading lists will be provided by the start of the course.
http://lists.lib.keele.ac.uk/modules/psy-30133/lists

Intended Learning Outcomes

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Study hours

33 hours structured contact time combining discussion, lectures and experiential learning. Students will participate in personal development group work, skills practice with peers and tutorials.
117 hours independent study dedicated to self-directed learning and assignment preparation. Students will engage in asynchronous learning based on assigned reading and other learning activities they will be required to complete between teaching sessions.

School Rules

Note that students are barred from taking study abroad on this programme, as per the programme spec

Description of Module Assessment

1: Evaluation of Practice weighted 40%
Recording and Evaluation of Counselling Practice
A 2000-word essay in which students will evaluate their practice within the context of a recorded session and reflecting on their own development. They will be expected to demonstrate their understanding of person-centred counselling theory and its application to practice with their peer. Alongside the essay, students must submit an electronic video recording of peer counselling, comprising 15 mins recording. Students will be assessed on their demonstration of basic person-centred counselling skills. Support with the assessment will be provided during taught sessions, and this assessment builds on that previously delivered in PSY-30132.

2: Reflective Analysis weighted 60%
Reflective Self-Study
A 2000-word essay in which students will reflect on their experience of skills and group work on the course, with reference to the literature. Students will be required to demonstrate their understanding of person-centred theory, ethics and self-awareness.

Please note that for the 2022/23 Academic Year programmes may be adapted to operate in accordance with a flexible, digital approach. This means that there may be some changes made to how modules are delivered and assessed. The latest information will be provided to you by your School in module handbooks. We endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes and details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/student-terms-and-conditions/

Last Updated: 27 April 2024