Module Descriptors
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT 2
PSYC50710
Key Facts
Health, Education, Policing and Sciences
Level 5
30 credits
Contact
Leader: Jacqueline Jouannet
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 70
Independent Study Hours: 230
Total Learning Hours: 300
Assessment
  • 2500 WORD REFLECTIVE ESSAY weighted at 100%
  • REFLECTIVE JOURNAL weighted at 0%
Module Details
ADDITIONAL ASSESSMENT DETAILS
2500 word reflective essay - weighted at 100% LO's 1 and 2.
Reflective Journal. 0% weighted Pass/Fail. Meets LO3

All elements must be passed to achieve the unit

Formative learning:
Observation and feedback from peers and tutors as part of group process
Reflective journal

INDICATIVE CONTENT
As with the previous module, personal development continues to be a key component of your journey. Experiential group process is the medium through which you will have the opportunity to increase your self-awareness and become more conscious of the underlying processes that are present between you and group members. It is expected that you will allow the emergence of more sensitive material that will facilitate a deeper acceptance of difference and diversity and an ability to be more congruent and immediate in your relationships. Your learning journal will aid the process of reflection and analysis.

• Experiential exercises
• Self-awareness
• Transference
• Counter-transference
• Projection
• Empathy
• Unconditional Positive Regard
• Congruence
• Self-support


LEARNING STRATEGIES
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: (70 hours)
100 hours group process work

Guided Independent Study: (230 hours)
24 hours accessing world wide web
50 hours reading and library study
40 hours preparing assignment
6 hours groups activities in preparation for group tutorials
RESOURCES
Library
IT resources including Power point
VLE
Core texts
TEXTS
Elliott, R., Watson, J.C., Goldman, R.N. and Greenberg, L.S. (2002) Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The Process-Experiential Approach to Change. Washington: American Psychological Association.
Lago, C. and MacMillan, M. (eds) (2012). Experiences in Relatedness: Groupwork and the
Person-Centred Approach. PCCS.
Merry, A. (1999). Learning and being. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books
Worsley, R. (2009). Process Work in Person-Centred Therapy. (2nd edn). Palgrave Macmillan

LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Demonstrate a critical reflexive awareness of own process through active engagement in the experiential group. (Knowledge and Understanding)

2. Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of the developing use of congruence and immediacy in the context of the experiential group. (Communication, Emquiry)

3. Critically reflect, analyse and synthesise learning gained from engagement with experiential group process. (Reflection)