PA967-7-FY-CO:
Personal Development
2024/25
Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 27 June 2025
15
19 June 2024
Requisites for this module
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PA969
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 provides you with the opportunity to develop and consolidate the personal capacities to take up the role of psychodynamic practitioner. It concentrates on the ability to reflect on your own experience as a key element in psychodynamic work. It gives you opportunities to take ownership of your own learning experience and to take responsibility for yourself as a learner, a member of the course group, a member of the staff in the placement and a clinician. It encourages further and deeper awareness of the conscious and unconscious elements in ourselves and between ourselves and others that provide the background to all human relationships and interactions.
The aims of this module are:
- To develop better understanding of ourselves as individuals, as learners, as clinicians and as members of a group and a team
- To develop further understanding of the role of the unconscious in individuals and in interactions between individuals
- To develop and consolidate the capacity for reflective practice
- To use reflective practice in working with clients and in supervision as a psychodynamic practitioner
- To consolidate the personal capacities and values required in professional clinical practice
By the end of the module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Reflect on your own experience
- Reflect on your own clinical learning journey
- Use reflective thinking in clinical work
- Reflect on group and organisational dynamics and your participation in them
- Use reflective thinking in the supervision relationship
No additional information available.
There is no specific reading for this module as it draws on material from other modules. However, students are encouraged to consult the BACP ethical framework for guidance on personal qualities and values required in counselling.
Tutorials will devote time to reflect on your learning journey and observation seminars will help develop self-reflective capacities.
Students will gain group relations experience, to study group and inter-group behaviour, to learn about the roles you take up in groups, the effect on you of group behaviour and the effect of your behaviour on the groups you are in.
Experiential groups and tutorials will be held regularly in the Autumn and Spring terms to prepare you for the reflective report.
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 |
06/05/2025 |
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
Dr Ann Addison, email: abaddi@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Ann Addison
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
Dr Nini Kerr
Available via Moodle
Of 12 hours, 9 (75%) hours available to students:
1 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
2 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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