Module Descriptors
DEVELOP A THEORETICAL BASE 3 - FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN COUNSELLING THEORY
PSYC50471
Key Facts
Health, Education, Policing and Sciences
Level 5
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Keith Walmsley-Smith
Email: Keith.Smith@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 48
Independent Study Hours: 102
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
  • PRESENTATION - INDIVIDUAL weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
Presentation - 20 mins with an additional 10 mins for discussion on `My Personal Philosophy of Counselling' (addressing all LO's)

Formative - Q and A, discussion, peer evaluation and feedback, self-evaluation, reflective journal, role-play, quiz, presentation, debate
Module Indicative Content
- Transactional Analysis
- Gestalt
- Further developments within core models
- Further developments in Counselling - other approaches
- Personal philosophy of counselling - theory and practice
Module Texts
BACP (quarterly journal) Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. Oxon: Routledge
De Board, R. (1997) Counselling for Toads. London: Routledge
Mann, D. (2010) Gestalt Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques. London: Routledge
Stewart, I. (2007) Transactional Analysis Counselling in Action. London: Sage Publications



Module Resources
Core texts
Classrooms
Computer, projector
Internet access
Library
VLE Moodle
Module Learning Strategies
Contact Hour: (48)
30 hours - Interactive lectures, DVDs, posters/wall display, role play, debate, presentations.
18 hours - Group work and discussion

Independent Study Hours: (102)
60 hours reading and reflecting, library and internet searching.
42 hours assignment preparation