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PSYC3577: PSYCHOLOGICAL PRACTICE

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Type	Tied
Level	3
Credits	10
Availability	Available in 2024/2025
Module Cap	40
Location	Durham
Department	Psychology

Prerequisites

120 credits from Level 2 Psychology modules offered on C800

Corequisites

None

Excluded Combinations of Modules

None

Aims

To familiarise students with a range of key counselling and psychological therapies
To enable students to experience demonstrating some core counselling skills

Content

Selection for the module will be competitive, based on a short written statement submitted by each interested student
Counselling and some key psychological therapies e.g. Cognitive Behavioural Therapies, Transactional Analysis and Solution-Focused Approaches
The primary focus is on one-to-one work but there is some coverage of the groupwork modality too

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

Students will have an understanding of some key approaches to counselling and psychological therapies

Subject-specific Skills:

Students will obtain basic skills in conducting therapeutic one to one interventions with clients/patients

Key Skills:

Listening
Establishing rapport
Demonstrating ethical practice and related basic clinical skills

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

Students' acquisition of detailed knowledge will be facilitated by lectures, some small group work, role plays, discussions and reading lists
These modes of teaching provide students with knowledge of the key theories and some of the skills needed in psychological practice
There will be a role play for the formative assessment and a role play for the summative assessment which will be based around some of the core skills of psychological practice

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total	Monitored
Seminars - models and skills practice	10	1 per week	2 Hours	20	Yes
Preparation and Reading				80
Total				100

Summative Assessment

Component: Examination		Component Weighting: 50%
Element	Length / Duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Examination	2 hour	100

Component: Practical Exercise		Component Weighting: 50%
Element	Length / Duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Basic Clinical Skills Demonstration Exercise	10 minutes	100

Formative Assessment

Practice session on basic clinical skills demonstration exercise. Feedback will be given on the day. Group feedback will be summarised afterwards for a shared learning opportunity within 2 weeks.

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