Postgraduate Course: Psychological vulnerabilities and distress in counselling practice (CNST11062)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Counselling Studies |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course examines human psychological vulnerabilities and distress, as they present and are worked with, in therapeutic practice. Theories of psychological vulnerability and distress are explored, including concepts from neuroscience, normal and abnormal psychology, trauma studies and attachment. The recovery model is also examined, as are the social and political contexts in which debates around mental health and emotional well-being are conducted. The course focuses on how counselling practitioners make sense of and use such understandings in their practice with clients. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students should have
¿ a critical understanding of the place, purpose and context of practice-based and case study research within counselling and psychotherapy research
¿ the capacity to evaluate the arguments for and against the value of case studies, reflexivity and practice-based research in counselling
¿ the capacity to refine and develop their own practice-based research project within this tradition
¿ a critical awareness of issues of power, diversity and difference in relation to the generation of knowledge, practice wisdom and research findings within counselling and psychotherapy research
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Assessment Information
| A 4,000 - 5,000 word essay |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Seamus Prior
Tel: (0131 6)51 6599
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Course secretary | Miss Sue Larsen
Tel: (0131 6)51 6671
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