PA119-4-FY-CO:
Theory, Practice and Responsibility

The details
2024/25
Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 27 June 2025
30
12 June 2024

 

Requisites for this module
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Key module for

FDA LX51 Therapeutic Communication and Therapeutic Organisations

Module description

This module connects your theory and observational seminars with your work-based practice. It is designed around clinical vignettes which illustrate the complexities and pathologies of human and organisational dynamics and interrelationships.


Some vignettes will be peer-reviewed journal articles, some will be anecdotal but from professional sources and some will be first-hand DVD diaries of Looked After Children (LAC) relating their experiences of being in care. They will cover both one-to-one work, group work and organisational problems which can be ordinarily faced working in caring, educational and therapeutic organisations. The content therefore will be avowedly human and interactional.


Each week you will log-on to Moodle and read a short vignette. Then, through a series of 'prompt question' on each vignette your tutor will invite observations, responses, comments and speculations from you on vignette. You will write a response to the questions on a word document and then upload this to Moodle. You should examine the vignettes in the light of your leaning in your theory seminars and in relation to your specific role and client group. You will be 'in the analyst's chair', in other words, having to think through in apparent isolation the myriad of possible and actual ways in which the child or young person might be functioning in an anti-developmental way and what therapeutic endeavours might be necessary to help them adapt to their circumstances.


Just like an ordinary seminar, you will be able to see, read and respond to the evolving discussion with your seminar group. It will be helpful to take some notes in your Reflective Journal and discuss the vignettes with your mentor at weekly mentor meetings.


This module runs for 20 weeks over the Autumn and Spring Terms. You will have at least one face to face seminar with your tutor to review the module and prepare for assignments. For further details see Moodle.

Module aims

The aims of this module are:



  • To progressively gain confidence in your writing by applying your experience and the theory from the course to a range of new situations.

  • To integrate your learning on the course by linking the moodle material to theory, observation seminars and work-based learning experience.

  • To consider a range of practice issues related to your responsibility and professional role.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students will be expected to be able to:



  1. Recognise and discuss a wide range of professional practice issues and dilemmas

  2. Make cogent connections between theory, practice and responsibility 

  3. Produce a clear, concise, evidenced written response to a professional practice issue

  4. Utilize and apply psychodynamic concepts to vignettes

  5. Demonstrate an awareness of the implicit and underlying processes and dynamics involved in a range of practice situations

Module information

No additional information available.

Learning and teaching methods

Moodle, supported by e-mail contact with tutor. Presentation of vignettes for analysis in line with both seminar topics and workplace practice.

Bibliography

This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.

Assessment items, weightings and deadlines

Coursework / exam Description Deadline Coursework weighting
Coursework   Participation    5% 
Coursework   Assessed vignette 1  30/01/2025  25% 
Coursework   Assessed vignette 2  13/03/2025  25% 
Coursework   Reflective commentary on three forum posts  15/05/2025  45% 

Exam format definitions

  • Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
  • In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
  • In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
  • In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary, for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.

Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.

Overall assessment

Coursework Exam
100% 0%

Reassessment

Coursework Exam
100% 0%
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Madeleine Wood, email: madeleine.wood@essex.ac.uk.
from Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Student Administrator, 5A202, telephone 01206 87 4969, email ppsug@essex.ac.uk

 

Availability
No
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External examiner

Dr Anthony John Faramelli
Goldsmiths
Lecturer in Visual Cultures
Resources
Available via Moodle
Of 1 hours, 1 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.

 

Further information
Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

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