Development of Professional Attitude (Children and Adolescents)

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 6
• Assessment: coursework (100%)

This module aims to develop your:

• capacity for self-knowledge and self-reflection, especially an understanding of one’s inner world and how this impacts on others
• awareness of transference/countertransference phenomenon and its impact of counselling/therapy work
• capacity for ethical and professional thinking and practice as a psychodynamic counsellor/therapist
• psychological/emotional maturity to demonstrate 'readiness for clinical placement'.

This is a practical module where teaching methods are  experientially based. There are weekly experiental groups and twice-termly large groups. In addition, you will take part in weekly personal therapy, which is key in professional growth. You will 'become' a client, experiencing at first hand how therapy works, and in so doing develop a capacity for self-knowledge and self-reflection. Through this ‘modelling’ you also experience at first hand technical issues which are integrated into the topics of study.

By the end of this module, you will have:

• skills in thinking psychodynamically about counselling/therapy issues, and making professional communications about counselling/therapy work
• developed the capacity for self-reflection, especially knowledge of one’s inner world and how it impacts on counselling/therapy work, and one’s role in groups and institutions
• developed the capacity for professional and ethical thinking in counselling/therapy.