PA963-7-SP-CO:
Psychodynamic Theory and Practice 2
2024/25
Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Colchester Campus
Spring
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Monday 13 January 2025
Friday 21 March 2025
15
13 November 2024
Requisites for this module
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MA C89D24 Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy,
MA C89D36 Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (3 year),
MA C89D48 Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (4 year),
MA C89DFD Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (3 year)
This module is in two parts. The first aims to help you understand the wider psychosocial issues which have an impact on their clients and on the work with them. This broadens the scope of the your thinking to encompass racial, political, class, gender and other societal pressures so that they can more fully understand their clients’ personal development. The second provides seminars and workshops to further your understanding of psychodynamic theory and practice. The later theory seminars explore more extreme symptomatology requiring more sophisticated expertise, establishing greater capacity to work with more demanding cases. While clinical work is not explicitly included in this module, you are expected to be making links between your theoretical and your clinical thinking and practice.
The aims of this module are:
- To provide insight into psychosocial factors in individual and family development
- To show how psychodynamic thinking can help understand societal and cultural issues
- To show how psychodynamic and psychosocial thinking together can bring greater depth and insight into clients
- To consolidate the ability to take up the professional role of counsellor through linking theory to practice
- To extend the understanding of the clinical role in context
- To provide further theoretical support in approaching the challenges of placement
- To broaden further the understanding of client presentations
- To broaden further the understanding of ways of working with clients
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to have:
- Greater awareness of psychosocial influences on individual development
- Greater confidence in recognising, addressing and handling psychosocial issues as they come up in clinical work
- Consolidated understanding of the professional role of counsellor
- Greater confidence in taking up the role
- Greater familiarity with a range of client presentations
Key Skills:
- Growing understanding of client presentations
- Growing ability to understand and manage professional role.
Employability Skills:
- Growing skill in counselling techniques
- Growing understandin of client presentations
- Growing ablilyt to manage professional role
This module will be delivered via:
- Theory seminars consisting of a lecture component followed by discussion
- Students read ahead of the seminars so they can join in discussion and bring relevant examples from their clinical work.
- Sometimes students might be asked to present the theoretical topic themselves.
- Workshops are more experiential with role-plays, practical exercisews and creative approaches to topic of the week.
- On alternate weeks there will be a shorter workshop followed by an experiential group.
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 |
Essay |
15/04/2025 |
100% |
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
Student Administrator 5A.202; Tel: 01206 873745; Email: ppspgt@essex.ac.uk
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Mr Mike Keating
Wessex Counselling and Psychotherapy
Head of Training
Available via Moodle
Of 141 hours, 123 (87.2%) hours available to students:
4 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
14 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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