| تاريخ بدء البرنامج | آخر موعد للتسجيل |
| 2024-09-01 | - |
| 2025-09-01 | - |
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The Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling is a part-time program that provides professional training for aspiring counsellors and psychotherapists. It focuses on developing students' skills, knowledge, and self-awareness through a curriculum that integrates theory, practice, personal development, and research. The program emphasizes inclusive training, welcoming diverse perspectives and promoting empathy for different cultures and ways of living. Successful graduates are well-prepared for careers in various mental health settings and possess transferable skills for roles in personal and executive coaching or business fields.
مخطط البرنامج
Degree Overview:
The Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling is a part-time program designed to provide professional training for individuals seeking a career in counselling, psychotherapy, and related mental health fields. The program aims to equip students with the necessary skills, knowledge, and self-awareness to become ethical, safe, and effective practitioners. The curriculum integrates skills practice, theory, personal wellbeing and development, research, and professional development. The program focuses on two influential modalities: psychodynamic therapies and humanistic therapies, which are widely used in various therapeutic settings. The program emphasizes inclusive training, welcoming diverse perspectives and promoting empathy for different cultures and ways of living. Students engage with various identities, including sexuality, gender, ability, culture, and ethnicity, to understand the lived experiences of diverse clients and the impact of (dis)advantage and privilege.
Outline:
The Postgraduate Diploma consists of two years of training. Students can choose to pursue the additional Master's component of the course after completing the Postgraduate Diploma.
Year 1:
- Counselling Skills and Practice: This year-long module introduces foundational counselling skills, reflective practice, and personal development. It emphasizes integrating theoretical concepts with clinical practice, working with complex issues safely and creatively, ethical considerations, self-direction and awareness, working ethically with diversity, and promoting wellbeing to various audiences. The module focuses on the BACP Ethical framework and decision-making in clinical dilemmas.
- Therapeutic Approaches 1: This module introduces different models of therapy and approaches to working with clients. It distinguishes between specific approaches and integrative/eclectic/pluralistic frameworks. It covers historical, social, and cultural contexts of humanistic approaches, various models and issues, including the person-centred approach, Gestalt models, existential therapy, attitudes and qualities of effective counsellors, and the BACP ethical framework. It also explores the historically narrow remit of counselling frameworks and promotes inclusive perspectives to understanding and applying therapeutic principles.
- Therapeutic Approaches 2: This module focuses on psychodynamic thinking as applied to therapeutic practice. It covers psychotherapeutic issues such as transference and countertransference, defence mechanisms, perversion, dreams, resistance, diversity, and sex. Students are encouraged to engage with psychodynamic issues creatively and safely, reflecting on professional, ethical, and clinical dilemmas, and integrating theory and practice.
Year 2:
- Advanced Skills and Practice: This year-long module deepens knowledge, understanding, and skills in relation to therapeutic interventions, formulations, and relational processes. Students continue working in their placements, reflecting on skills, interventions, and processes in seminars. The module facilitates ongoing evaluation of personal and professional development. It covers advanced psychotherapeutic skills, practical therapeutic interventions, case formulations, peer supervision, and working with complex issues safely and creatively. It also emphasizes ethical considerations, self-direction, working with diversity, and promoting wellbeing.
- Specialist Topics in Counselling: This module critically examines professional and ethical issues encountered in everyday clinical practice. It focuses on studies, dilemmas, and scenarios encountered in counselling practice, including suicidality. It covers working safely, ethically, and professionally in all situations, considering relevant professional codes and guidelines. Seminars involve student-led case studies, role plays, and guest lectures to bring real-world experiences into the classroom. The module emphasizes engagement with complex issues, ethical considerations, self-direction, and working with diverse perspectives.
- Therapeutic Approaches 3: This module explores the integration of different approaches to therapeutic practice. It covers models of integration, similarities and differences between integration, assimilation, and eclecticism, developing a personal integrative approach, considering wider issues of integration, formulating client problems using an integrative framework, and evaluating the effectiveness of an integrative approach.
- Counselling Placement: Students who have not completed the minimum number of hours of personal therapy (25) by the submission deadline for Portfolio 1, will need to apply for mitigating circumstances (to submit the completed portfolio with all required components, at the resit Progression and Award Board. Students who have not completed the recommended number of client counselling hours at the end of the First Year (40), will be allowed to continue with placement into the second year and be required to have completed the minimum required hours (100) by the end of the second year to graduate from their studies. Any student who has outstanding tasks to complete by the end of the second year (e.g., number of client hours, number of personal therapy hours) will be able to submit mitigating circumstances to request a deferral to the submission of their portfolio. Their graduation will be considered at the next available Progression and Assessment Board. This module is assessed on a Pass/Fail basis.
Optional MSc Top Up:
- Research Methods and Project in Counselling: This module aims to develop the knowledge, understanding, and skills necessary to formulate and implement research questions related to counselling problems. It covers research philosophy, approaches to research, methodologies, data collection and analysis, and presentation of research findings. It explores key themes in research, including validity, evidence-base, representation of research participants, and the reproducibility crisis, within a decolonising perspective.
Assessment:
The program utilizes a variety of assessment methods, including:
- Practical: Presentations, podcasts, blogs
- Coursework: Essays, in-class tests, portfolios, dissertation
Teaching:
Teaching methods across the program focus on active student learning through:
- Lectures
- Seminars
- Workshops
- Problem-based and blended learning
- Practical application The program features a team of experienced faculty, including:
- Dr Nikolaos Souvlakis: Senior Lecturer, psychoanalyst, and medical anthropologist with over 20 years of clinical practice.
- Dr Sanjay Joban: Senior Lecturer, qualified therapist, and Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Careers:
Successful completion of the program prepares graduates to work in a wide range of settings, including:
- NHS
- University counselling services
- School-based counselling
- Charity organisations
- Private practice
- Academic departments
- Research The program also equips students with transferable skills for roles in:
- Personal and executive coaching
- Business fields
Other:
- The program is Gender, Sex and Relationship Diverse (GSRD) accredited.
- The program is seeking accreditation with the BACP.
- The program team has over 20 years of experience, with several members working in the field alongside teaching.
- The program team has relationships with the European Association of Counsellors.
- The program emphasizes the importance of decolonising the curriculum and producing therapists equipped to serve diverse clients.
UK Fees:
£4,250 (Price per academic year) This opportunity is available if you have a personal tuition fee liability of £2,000 or more and if you are self-funded or funded by the Student Loans Company.
