Lectures, peers, work placements, access to a PC, databases and web pages, library and learning resource centre, powerpoint, TV and video, flipchart and pens, Staffordshire University skills website. Stoke on Trent College Drug education intranet site. Tutorials available in person and via e-mail. Care workshop, departmental Media Collection, Intranet.

Undertake a case study (3500 words) demonstrating application to practice of one model of counselling or therapy. Show how personal reflection has influenced your responses to the service user (Outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 4). 100%

Formative Assessment will take place via seminar work, small group feedback and student led sessions.

Interactive lectures (8%)
Experiential Work (8%)
Seminar presentation of theory (7%)
Group tutorials (2%)

Library searches and exploration of database and web based information (20%)
Directed reading (20%)
Assessment preparation (20%)
Preparation for small group feedback (15%)

Information and materials will be made available via blackboard to support student learning.

Dryden, W (2007) (5th Ed), Handbook of Individual Therapy, London, Sage. ISBN 9781412922388
Mc Leod, J (2003) (3rd Ed) An Introduction to Counselling, Buckingham, Open University Press, ISBN 0335197094.
Lockley, P (1995) Counselling Heroin and Other Drug Users, London, Free Association Books. ISBN 9781853433047

The aims of counselling
Humanistic, Psychodynamic & Integrative models & theories
Brief Therapies including: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy / Solution Focused Brief Therapy / Motivational Interviewing
Ethics
Theoretical basis of Psychotherapy & it's relationship to counselling
Counselling & other helping professions
The diversity of theory & practice in counselling
Psychodrama
Developing the therapeutic relationship & working collaboratively.
Group work methods
Counselling as an inter-disciplinary area of study
Contribution of the 12 step approach