ED50NE: Foundations and Therapeutic Process in Person-Centred Counselling

ED50NE: FOUNDATIONS AND THERAPEUTIC PROCESS IN PERSON-CENTRED COUNSELLING (2022-2023)

Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:19

Course Overview

This course aims to enable students to develop the personal qualities and professional skills necessary for competent and reflective practitioners within a person centred framework. Self-awareness, counselling theory, practice and research are integrated to a level that enables course members to engage with therapeutic processes in a range of counselling relationships. Although the counselling programme is structured on a modular basis it is conceptualised as a comprehensive experience. The programme has four strands: Counselling Relationship and Therapeutic Process; Counselling Theory and Research; Personal Development; Professional Development. This course constitutes the 1st module of the fulltime counselling programme.

Course Details

Study Type	Postgraduate	Level	5
Term	First Term	Credit Points	60 credits (30 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Mrs Anne Smith

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

Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

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?

Course Description

Specifically, this course aims to enable students to:

Understand Carl Rogers' theory of therapy and personality change.
Develop the person-centred therapeutic attitudes of unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence in the counselling relationship.
Develop basic competence in person-centred counselling relationships.
Evaluate the importance of personal development in relation to training as a person-centred counsellor.
Consider the effect of personal experience, values, and attitudes on the counsellor's practice.
Understand person-centred therapeutic processes.
Place individual counselling practice within a sound ethical framework as outlined in the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy and the COSCA Statement of Ethics and Code of Practice.
Develop awareness of their professional developmental needs and of the importance of the full use of counselling supervision.

Associated Costs

Description	Value
Field trip - residential weekend	200.0000
Independent supervision – fortnightly, ranges from £30 to £50 a session - A ratio of one hour supervision to 6 client hours – required by validating body COSCA	50.0000

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers

Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 21st September 2026 for Term 1 and Full Year courses and 8th January 2027 for Term 2 courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	20
Assessment Weeks	9	Feedback Weeks	12	Look up Week Numbers
Feedback	An analysis of a recorded practice session. Turnitin used with written feedback.	Word Count	2500

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Essay

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	50
Assessment Weeks	19	Feedback Weeks	22	Look up Week Numbers
Feedback	A mixture of theory and reflective writing related to practice. Turnitin used with written feedback.	Word Count	5000

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Essay

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	30
Assessment Weeks	13	Feedback Weeks	16	Look up Week Numbers
Feedback	Theoretical essay. Turnitin used with written feedback.	Word Count	3500

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Formative Assessment

Readiness to practice statement

Assessment Type	Formative	Weighting	0
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback	Peer and tutor verbal feedback in supervision group setting. Live feedback.

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Placement

Assessment Type	Formative	Weighting	0
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback	Minimum of 100 counselling sessions to be achieved over the academic year. Starting from week 10 after achieving readiness.

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Resit Assessments

Resubmission of failed elements

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	100
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Conceptual	Apply	Ability to use supervision in an expansive, non-defensive, and constructive manner
Reflection	Create	Development of an internalised locus of evaluation.
Conceptual	Understand	Understanding the articulation between self-awareness, person-centred theory, and counselling practice.
Factual	Understand	Development of an in-depth and critical understanding of Carl Rogers’ theory of therapy and personality change.
Conceptual	Understand	Examination of person-centred theory in relation to self-experiences and personal development.
Reflection	Analyse	Ability to use feedback effectively to identify areas for further development.
Procedural	Apply	Ability to establish and maintain appropriate professional boundaries.
Conceptual	Apply	Ability to implement the person-centred therapeutic attitudes of unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence in the counselling relationship.

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