Professional Doctorate Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology

This module is first year level 7 module on the Professional Doctorate programme in Counselling Psychology. The module aims to develop your understanding of integration by developing a number of specific core competencies and proficiencies as a counselling psychology practitioner in training: the module aims to create a bridge between your role as a trainee and professional peer in the community of research and practice. The module consists of a year-long programme of study, focusing on the critical application of models to practice in counselling psychology, personal and professional development activities, supervised clinical practice, workshops and seminars and university based reflexive practice group. 1. Trainees will seek a professional placement within a psychological service, and undertake therapeutic practice work, under the supervision of a suitably qualified psychological practitioner (a counselling or clinical psychologist, or a supervisor belonging to a suitably accredited body and approved by the Cohort Tutor). You must complete a total of 450 hours of client contact over the duration of the course and a total of 56 hours of supervision (a ratio of 1:8). Therefore, successful completion of this module requires a minimum of supervised 100 client contact hours (a maximum of 150 may be submitted). 2. A minimum of 80% attendance of sessions is required to complete this course. 3. A total of 40 hours of personal therapy must be attended throughout the overall programme. You are advised to consider beginning this engagement during year one. You will be arranging this for yourself and meet any fees that are incurred. The personal therapist is required to supply evidence that you have met the attendance requirement. All personal therapists must be approved by your cohort tutor or programme lead. The therapist approval criteria could be located for review on your online programme hub . You are required to keep a reflexive personal journal of personal and...