Postgraduate Course: The Group in the Development of the Self and Others : A Person-Centred Perspective (MCouns) (CNST11042)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science | 
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 20 | 
ECTS Credits | 10 | 
 
 
| Summary | The aims of this module are: 1) to facilitate course members experience of the complexity of interactions, ways of being and relationships in the person-centred large group, conceived of as a learning community; 2) to provide opportunities to enhance self-other awareness and reflexivity; 3) to engage with relevant research; 4) to explore the core condition of congruence. This is a core course only available to students  undertaking the Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling or the Master of Counselling (Interpersonal Dialogue). | 
 
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2023/24, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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Quota:  None | 
 
| Course Start | 
Semester 2 | 
 
Timetable  | 
	
Timetable | 
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | 
 
 Total Hours:
200
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 Lecture Hours 10,
 Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) | 
 
  Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) | 
Typed essay of 3,000 words in length 
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| Feedback | 
Formative feedback on practice is offered throughout the course, especially in Practice and Process Groups (PPGs). 
 
Summative feedback will be given on the course paper via Learn. | 
 
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Learning Outcomes 
    On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
    
        - reflect openly and insightfully on your experience of the six necessary and sufficient conditions in relation to yourself and others in the person-centred group
 - reflect openly and insightfully on your experience of counselling clients in relation to your learning in the person-centred group
 - conceptualise the counselling relationship and the counselling process in relation to the person-centred approach
 - integrate experience, process and practice
 
     
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | 
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| Keywords | Not entered | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Ms Abigail Finnegan 
Tel: (0131 6)51 5433 
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Course secretary | Miss Sue Larsen 
Tel: (0131 6)51 6671 
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