Module Descriptors
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR COUNSELLORS 2 - THE GROUP PROCESS
PSYC50524
Key Facts
Health, Education, Policing and Sciences
Level 5
45 credits
Contact
Leader: Keith Walmsley-Smith
Email: Keith.Smith@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 72
Independent Study Hours: 378
Total Learning Hours: 450
Assessment
  • REPORT weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
Personal Development Report - including reflective journal extracts and reflections on peer and tutor feedback - 5,000 words (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
Constructs: Social, Organisational, Familial, Relational.
Group process
Congruence
Understanding of self in relation to self-development
Integrating personal development with theory and practice.
Models of self-understanding
Module Resources
Core texts
Classrooms
Computer, projector
Internet access
Library
VLE Moodle
Module Learning Strategies
Contact Hours: (72)
20 hours - Interactive lectures, DVDs, using creative media, debate, reflective journal
50 hours - Personal Development Group work and discussion, Peer Partner discussion and feedback
2 hours - personal tutorials

Independent Study Hours: (378)
170 hours reading and reflecting, writing reflective journal
208 hours assignment preparation
Module Texts
BACP (quarterly journal) Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. Oxon: Routledge
Jeffers, S. (2007) Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway. Vermilion
Johns, H. (2002) Personal Development in Counsellor Training. London: Sage
Rose, C. (2008) The Personal Development Group: The Students¿ Guide. London: Karnac Books
Sunderland, M. (1997) Draw on Your Emotions. Milton Keynes: Speechmark Publishing Ltd
Yalom, .D. and Leszcz, M. (2005) Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. Cambridge MA. Basic Books