Postgraduate Course: Counselling Practice and Process Course 3 (CNST11028)

Course Outline
School	School of Health in Social Science	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This course runs through the whole of Year 3 of the Master of Counselling programme. It is the context in which students engage in in-depth discussion and analysis of their continuing counselling practice with clients. The aim of this course is to facilitate students to consolidate their learning from their counselling practice so that they may qualify as diploma counsellors and take up post-qualifying positions as reflective, self-aware, safe, accountable and ethical counselling opractitioners, working from a clear theoretical base.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites	Students MUST have passed: Counselling Practice and Process Course 2 (CNST11024)	Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Full Year
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities
Assessment (Further Info)	Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Assessment Methods
Additional Information (Assessment)	Professional portfolio 3: logs and reports equivalent to 4,000 words. The portfolio also requires a log of the 200 counselling hours undertaken, the 40 supervision hours and the 14 hours of personal tutorials. Final reports, written collaboratively with the placement supervisor and the personal tutor, assessing the student=s readiness to qualify, are also included.
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students should have - a clear assessment of their readiness and practise as a reflective, self-aware, safe, accountable and ethical counsellor, integrating feedback, assessment and guidance regarding their counselling practice from tutors, supervisors and peers - a clear assessment of their strengths and learning and support needs in relation to their ability to maintain, develop and conclude effective counselling relationships with clients - the capacity to identify and reflect on the ethical and other challenges they have faced in their counselling practice placement and to analyse and assess how they have managed these - the capacity to analyse and reflect critically on issues of difference, diversity and power in relation to their counselling practice, demonstrating their ability to counter discrimination and to act to empower clients - the capacity to conceptualise, analyse and present the development and impact of therapeutic relationships with reference to their own counselling practice with individual clients