PA215-6-SU-CO:
Counselling Contexts
2024/25
Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Colchester Campus
Summer
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Tuesday 22 April 2025
Friday 27 June 2025
15
13 November 2024
Requisites for this module
(none)
PA210 and PA211
(none)
(none)
PA257
DIPLC89A09 Psychodynamic Approaches,
DIPLC89A24 Psychodynamic Approaches,
MA C89D36 Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (3 year),
MA C89D48 Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (4 year),
MA C89DFD Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (3 year),
BA LX5C Therapeutic Communication and Therapeutic Organisations
This module equips you with an appreciation of the role of the counsellor and prepares you for taking up that role in the clinical part of the training.
The module aims to provide you with an awareness of the complexity of the role, and an understanding of the professional environment you will be encountering on placement in the following year. It aims to familiarise you with the settings within which counselling takes place
The module will give you awareness of the ethical and statutory frameworks within which you will be working and help you understand the meaning and standing of counselling in a range of agencies, and its place in wider provision. It will help develop the confidence to take up the role and explain it to others.
The aims of the module are:
- To develop awareness of the counselling role
- To develop awareness of the complexity of the counselling relationship
- To develop confidence to take up the role and explain it to others
- To develop awareness of the ethical and statutory framework within which counselling takes place
- To develop awareness of the wider service context within which counselling takes place and its place in it
By the end of the module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Understand the nature and complexity of the counselling role
- Understand the ethical and statutory framework around the counselling relationship
- Understand counselling's place in a wider range of interventions and services
- Capacity to take up a placement as a trainee counsellor in supervision with awareness of the implications and responsibilities that this entails
Assessment in this module includes a pass or fail readiness to practice assessment.
The readiness for practice assessment consists of role plays, role-play feedback, a self-assessment report and a dedicated tutorial/interview. It will take place during the summer term. Readiness for practice is not graded but assessed as a Pass or Fail based on the extent to which you are personally and professionally ready to embark on clinical work and to adhere to the BACP ethical framework.
Theory seminars will cover key aspects of counselling and the role of the counsellor, with discussion of readings. Some seminars will include extracts from television programmes or professional recordings presenting counselling situations.
Workshops and role-plays will enable students to practise skills and gain confidence in taking up the counselling role.
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 |
Vignettes |
27/05/2025 |
100% |
Additional coursework information
Assessment for this module is 100 per cent Coursework mark
Coursework is made up of 4 vignettes x 500 words
There is an additional Readiness to Practice assessment on a pass/fail basis.
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
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Susan Kegerreis, email: skeger@essex.ac.uk.
Professor Susan Kegerreis
skeger@essex.ac.uk
Student Administrator: 5A.202 telephone 01206 873745; email ppspgt@essex.ac.uk
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Mr Mike Keating
Wessex Counselling and Psychotherapy
Head of Training
Dr Anthony John Faramelli
Goldsmiths
Lecturer in Visual Cultures
Dr Nini Kerr
Available via Moodle
Of 23 hours, 21 (91.3%) hours available to students:
2 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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