PSY-40023 - Module Specification
School of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

This module aims to help students gain an awareness of some of the issues which clients might bring to counselling. It also aims to help facilitate, in students, an awareness of the issues involved in working with difference and diversity, together with an awareness of prejudice and oppression and of how all of these might impact on client, counsellor and the therapeutic relationship.

To enable students to understand issues of power, culture and difference and how they may present within the counselling relationship, and how these may be therapeutically worked with.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Critically demonstrate an understanding of how counselling, as a form of helping, is socially and culturally situated: 1
Critically discuss how power dynamics and culture(s), within and outside of the person-centred counselling relationship, may impact on the lives and growth of individuals: 1
Synthesise the issues involved in working with difference and diversity within the person-centred counselling relationship and wider counselling profession: 1
Demonstrate an understanding of prejudice, oppression and social justice and of how this might impact on client, counsellor, therapeutic relationship and wider counselling profession: 1
Illustrate an understanding of ethics and professional standards linked to power, culture and difference, with reference to the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions: 1

Study hours

Active learning hours - 80 in-situ (lectures and experiential group work)
Independent study hours - 220
(preparing and completing assessed work and continued private study into this domain and how it relates to counsellor training and practice).

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment