Postgraduate Course: DPsychotherapy Professional Accreditation and Personal Development (CNST12006)
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 12 (Postgraduate) | 
Credits | 60 | 
 
| Home subject area | Counselling Studies | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
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Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | This course will support students to apply for and gain their individual practitioner accreditation as a psychotherapist, which also includes the planning and execution of a personal development programme. Students will receive group and individual tutorial support in planning for and completing their accreditation application and the assessed course work consists of a full accreditation application. | 
 
 
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements |  None | 
 
| Additional Costs |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14  Flexible, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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Learn enabled:  Yes | 
Quota:  None | 
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| Course Start Date | 
05/08/2013 | 
 
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Learning Outcomes 
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:  
1. By the end of the course students should be 
-   competent to practise independently, safely and accountably as psychotherapists within professional and ethical frameworks 
  
2. -  able to make highly skilled use of the therapeutic relationship and process, as well as of clinical supervision related to their practice  
3. -  equipped with a wide range of psychotherapeutic skills including listening, attunement, responding, assessing, contracting etc  
4. -  equipped with specific professional expertise at the forefront of one or more practice specialisms 
-  able to demonstrate originality and creativity in the development and application of new knowledge, understanding and practices to their practice as psychotherapists 
  
5. -  able to exercise a high level of autonomy and initiative in their professional practice | 
 
 
Assessment Information 
| The assignment for this course is a full psychotherapy accreditation application of approximately 12,000 - 15,000 words |  
 
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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