Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling and Therapy in the Community Module 3

Course Content
Students focus on their own process in order to increase their awareness and understanding. Creativity and spontaneity are encouraged in order to expand personal limits.
Theory and practical skills are offered which may be applied to a wide range of counselling settings in the community.

• An Historic and Developmental Overview of Analytic Work
• The Life and Ideas of Freud, Klein, Abraham, Jones and Ferenczi
• The Life and Ideas of Fairbairn, Winnicott, Bowlby, Balint and Bion
• Present day theorists and their influence on psychodynamic counselling
• The Psychodynamic Model including clinical assessments, working with difference and diversity, object relations in practice, clinical dilemmas, research
• The Psychodynamics of Organisations

All students are supervised in small groups and maintain a record of casework.

Each student is required to:

• Write a process paper illustrating theoretical approaches to clinical work.
• Write a paper on the organisational dynamics of their clinical placement.
• Present a theoretical seminar and paper.

Assessment and Evaluation

In the second term verbal mid-year assessments are given by the student, their peers and the tutors.

Module Three students are assessed in June of the academic year or the following January.

End of year reports are submitted by the student's Seminar Tutor, Practise Group Tutor and Supervisor together with the Panel of Readers report to the Tutor Team and the External Moderator for the Final Assessment Day.

Final assessments are based on self, peer and Tutor assessments, Supervisor's reports, number of logged clinical hours, report from the clinical placement, Panel of Readers report and Tutor's reports on written assignments and presentations.

Grades will be awarded for Coursework and written papers.