Unit Title: Counselling: Towards Reflective Practice

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1 Unit Credit Value: 12 Unit Level: Three Unit Guided Learning Hours: 60 Ofqual Unit Reference Number: A/506/3052 Unit Review Date: 31/07/2019 Unit Sector: 1.3 Health and Social Care Unit Summary This unit will enable learners to work towards becoming a reflective practitioner of counselling by considering theories of human development, self-awareness, supervision and issues of difference and diversity. This unit will support them in preparing for work in a supervised placement. Unit Information It is expected that before the unit is delivered, the tutor will have read the Qualification Specification to ensure all conditions regarding Rules of Combination, delivery, assessment and internal quality assurance are fulfilled. Additional guidance is available below as Assessment Guidance for Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria in bold. This unit has 4 learning outcomes LEARNING OUTCOMES The learner will: 1. Understand how the major counselling approaches explain human development 2. Understand how the major counselling approaches relate to own thoughts, feelings and behaviours ASSESSMENT CRITERIA The learner can: 1.1. Clarify the different theories and approaches to human development 1.2. Compare different theories of human development 1.3. Compare how different theories impact upon counselling practice 2.1. Review the potential influence of the counsellor's own issues on the client and the counselling process 2.2. Justify the importance of differentiating between own and client's issues of 5

2 LEARNING OUTCOMES The learner will: 3. Understand the nature of counselling supervision 4. Understand the importance of issues of difference and diversity in the practice of counselling ASSESSMENT CRITERIA The learner can: 3.1. Explain how to make effective use of counselling supervision 3.2. Explore ways in which the use of supervision may contribute to the counselling process 4.1. Review ways in which issues of difference and diversity may influence the counselling relationship and process 4.2. Explore ways in which issues of difference and diversity may be managed as part of the counselling process Assessment This unit is internally assessed by a journal of up to 800 words per session. Indicative Content Learning Outcome Different theories: for example: Humanistic Theory origins as an alternative to behavioural therapy and psychoanalytic methods innate human tendency to develop full potential focus on recognising creativity, personal growth and choice. Maslow hierarchy of Human Needs. Rogers actualizing tendency organismic valuing positive regard conditions of worth real v ideal self incongruity denial perceptual distortion fully functioning person of 5

3 Gestalt uniqueness of person in context of current environment awareness cycle responsibility and choice field theory. Psychodynamic Theory Freud drive Theory conscious/preconscious/unconscious id/ego/superego pleasure principle/reality principle libido/death instinct anxiety defence mechanisms oedipal crisis post-freudian Developments object Relations Klein Winnicott. Cognitive-Behavioural Theory Origins of Behavioural Theory Pavlov: classical conditioning Watson -conditioned behaviourism. Cognitive Theory Bandura - social cognitive theory. Beck schemas automatic thoughts Strategies. Ellis REBT ABC theory of 5

4 Learning Outcome 2 Major counselling approaches: congruence over-identification use of the counsellor s own reactions as an aid to empathy varieties of countertransference collaborative working Learning Outcome 3 Counselling supervision: models of supervision e.g. Inskipp and Proctor normative formative restorative Carroll 7 Tasks 3.1 Make effective use: in the best interests of clients. Learning Outcome 4 Difference and diversity in the practice of counselling: review and explore ways in which the following factors may arise in students future client work: gender and sexuality disability age race and culture class religion spirituality. Reading List Required Reading Feltham, C and Horton, I. (2012) The SAGE Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy (3rd Ed). London: Sage. Parts 2 ii and v Johns, H. (2012) Personal Development in Counsellor Training (2nd Ed). London.: Sage. Walker, M. and Jacobs, M. (2004) Supervision: Questions and Answers for Counsellors and Therapists. Chichester: Wiley of 5

5 Recommended Reading Bager-Charleson, S.(2012) Personal Development in Counselling and Psychotherapy. London: Learning Matters. Carroll, M. and Holloway, E. (1999) Counselling Supervision in Context. London Sage. Colledge, R. (2002) Mastering Counselling Theory. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Parts 1,2 and 4 Wheeler. S. (Ed.) (2006) Difference and Diversity in Counselling. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan of 5