Counselling Psychology - Prof Doc

PhD

In London

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Description

  • Type

    PhD

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    2 Years

The Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology is a three-year full-time (four-year part-time) taught doctoral programme that combines in-depth competency in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), strong humanistic values and psychodynamic awareness. The doctorate was commended by the BPS for the depth and breadth of the modules offered; a number of our modules were described as cutting-edge and well suited to the current zeitgeist and employment market. These modules include a first-year module devoted to working with difference and diversity and a third-year service evaluation research exercise.

Run by a dedicated team of HCPC registered and BPS accredited chartered counselling and clinical psychologists, this course offers wide-ranging and high quality clinical and research expertise to trainees. Course team members have between 1 to 11 years of post-qualification clinical experience, and two-thirds hold PhD or professional doctoral titles and are academically published authors.

The team prides itself on retaining a small cohort each year of 20 students. This enables us to offer you a high volume of individual attention. You'll be assigned a personal tutor and two research supervisors, and offered a relatively high proportion of research supervision (10 hours in Year 1 and 20 hours each year in Years 2 and 3), safe spaces for clinical group supervision and skills practice, and an experiential and workshop style of teaching and learning. Trainees and staff develop collaborative relationships in relation to learning and personal development.

The programme has a dedicated placements coordinator and an extensive online placement provider database that is accessible prior to your training. We offer a comprehensive placements induction in the first week of training and we encourage and support you to be in placement or at interview stage with placement providers by the beginning of your training.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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31 Jewry Street, EC3N 2EY

Start date

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About this course

This course leads to a doctoral qualification that automatically confers registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), accreditation as a fully qualified chartered counselling psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS), and recognition within the UK as a chartered counselling psychologist eligible to practice.

Drawing on a range of approaches to psychological practice and enquiry, it will enable you to make a significant contribution to psychological knowledge, research and practice across a range of settings in public, private and voluntary sectors.

The principle aims and achievements of the course are to produce graduates who are:

competent, informed, reflective, ethical and professionally sound practitioners of counselling psychology who are able to work in a range of settings and are committed to their own on-going personal and professional development
able to understand, develop and apply models of advanced psychological inquiry and research that enable the creation of new knowledge and which recognise the complex nature of human experience and relationships
able to adopt a questioning and evaluative approach to the philosophy, practice, research and theory that constitutes counselling psychology and aware of the wider social, cultural and political domains within which counselling psychology operates
in possession of a set of skills and competencies that are transferable to a wide variety of professional contexts and which enhance employability
able to demonstrate the range of counselling psychology competencies needed to be eligible to apply for chartered status with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) of the British Psychological Society
a minimum of an upper second class (2:1) honours degree in Psychology
practical experience of using counselling skills in an emotionally demanding helping role gained over at least one year prior to application and ideally some training in counselling skills
a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check

The Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology leads to a doctoral qualification that automatically confers professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and accreditation as a fully qualified chartered counselling psychologist with the British Psychological Society.

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Subjects

  • Counselling Psychology
  • Psychology
  • IT
  • IT Development
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
  • Project
  • Word
  • Behavioural Therapy
  • Team Training
  • Ms Word

Course programme

Modular structure

The modules listed below are for the academic year 2020/21 and represent the course modules at this time. Modules and module details (including, but not limited to, location and time) are subject to change over time.

Year 1 modules include:
  • Advanced Research Design and Analysis for Psychology (core, 20 credits)
  • Counselling Psychology Practice and Development (core, 20 credits)
  • Professional and Ethical Issues (core, 20 credits)
  • Psychological Knowledge and Models of Therapy (core, 20 credits)
  • Research Project and Critical Skills (core, 60 credits)
  • Therapeutic and Reflective Skills (core, 20 credits)
  • Working with Difference and Diversity (core, 20 credits)
Year 2 modules include:
  • Advanced Psychological Research (core, 160 credits)
  • Advanced Psychological Theory and Practice 1 (core, 100 credits)
  • Advanced Psychological Theory and Practice 2 (core, 100 credits)
Assessment

In Year 1 you'll complete seven master's level assignments, including a reflective essay, case formulation, process report, examination, and two short research assignments using qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
You'll also complete a 7,000-word reflexive critical literature review and a 3,000-word proposal towards the end of Year 1. Your proposal must demonstrate an adequate basis for a doctoral level research project for you to proceed into Year 2 of the programme. Year 1 is the most intensive period of assessment on the programme.
If you progress to Year 2 you'll complete an extended clinical case study, integrative process analysis and theoretical essay at the end of the year, reflecting cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic learning. At the end of Year 3, a similar assignment is completed, reflecting a trans-theoretical, pluralistic perspective. You should complete your research project by the end of Year 3, submitting a 25,000-word thesis and subsequently participating in a viva voce examination.
You are required to complete a minimum of 450 clinical hours in a range of placements under supervision over the duration of the programme, as well as a minimum of 60 hours of your own personal therapy.
Supervisors complete six-monthly practice competency evaluations, which enable bi-directional feedback and reflection on your progress and continuing professional development in your practice placements. Your personal and professional development is individually monitored and supported throughout the programme via annual reviews and appraisals with a tutor from the programme team.

Additional information

This course is extremely competitive and has limited places available. We are no longer accepting applications for entry in September 2021. We'd advise candidates looking to apply for September 2022 submit their applications between October 2021 and early January 2022 at the latest, to avoid disappointment.

Counselling Psychology - Prof Doc

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