Postgraduate Course: Counselling Supervision (CNST11022)
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 | Available to all students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 20 | 
ECTS Credits | 10 | 
 
 
| Summary | Rationale 
All counselling and psychotherapy practitioners are required to have regular supervision by a suitably experienced and qualified supervisor. Increasingly, professional bodies expect that these supervisors will have completed a professionally-validated supervision course. In October 2005, COSCA, our professional body in Scotland, launched such a supervision course.  
 
This course will incorporate the COSCA supervision course and will be offered as a CPD course.  
 
Aims 
This course provides a comprehensive professional training in counselling supervision. Students will  
- study the principal theories and models of supervision,  
- analyse research evidence on supervision,  
- explore the social, cultural and organisational contexts in which supervision takes place, 
- examine the challenges and dilemmas, including ethical issues, which arise in counselling supervision 
- develop their supervision skills and self-awareness as a supervisor through practising supervision skills on the course, undertaking a counselling supervision placement and completing a substantial case study of their work with a supervisee 
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| Course description | 
    
    This course offers a professional training in counselling supervision. It covers the principal theories and models, discusses the current research literature, explores the wider social, cultural and organisational contexts, examines the challenges and dilemmas ¿ including ethical issues ¿ that arise in supervision, and provides opportunities for developing skills and self-awareness as a supervisor. Students undertake a counselling placement and complete a case study.
    
    
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  None | 
 
 
Information for Visiting Students 
| Pre-requisites | None | 
 
		| High Demand Course? | 
		Yes | 
     
 
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |   
Learning Outcomes 
    On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
    
        - Demonstrate the necessary knowledge, skills and self-awareness to practise as a safe and accountable counselling supervisor in a range of settings.
 - Reflect critically on the practice of counselling supervision, its challenges, dilemmas and contexts.
 - Integrate their knowledge of theories and models of supervision into their own supervision practice
 
     
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Contacts 
| Course organiser | Mr Robert Goupillot 
Tel: (0131 6)50 4328 
Email: Bob.Goupillot@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Miss Alexandra Dickson 
Tel: (0131 6)50 3890 
Email: Alex.Dickson@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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