Personal Power and Social Change
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| EDUC4131 | Education | 4 | 60 | Full Year UK |
- Code
- EDUC4131
- School
- Education
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 60
- Semesters
- Full Year UK
Summary
This module provides students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in an exploration beyond the confines of the psychotherapeutic literature to learn about issues of power, equality, diversity, and inclusion. The module examines the influences of the social and the cultural world on human development and behaviour. This learning provides students with the ability to think broadly about issues relevant to person-centred experiential psychotherapy.
Target Students
Students registered on the MA Person-Centred Experiential Counselling and Psychotherapy course.
Co-requisites
Modules you must take in the same academic year, or have taken in a previous year, to enrol in this module:
- Advancing Professional Practice and Skills (EDUC4130)
- Advancing person-centred experiential theory (EDUC4129)
Classes
Delivered through workshops.
Assessment
- 50% Coursework 2: Case study 5,000 words (assessed in June)
- Participation: 90% attendance required for individual accreditation with a professional body.
- 25% Presentation: 30 minute video presentation or 1,000 word blog post. (assessed in May)
- 25% Coursework 1: 2,500 words written essay (assessed in January)
Assessed in both autumn & spring semest
Educational Aims
The aim of the module is: To provide an opportunity to develop a deep understanding of the socio-cultural world to synthesise learning into awareness to help shape more contextually aware, situated practice in the counselling room.Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
- developed understandings of power in relationships, social influence and social structures regarding the self
- considered the development of values and attitudes in relation to equality, diversity and inclusion via exploration of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender and disability etc.
- conceptualized space in terms of varying scales i.e. macro/micro scales and their significance in terms of interpersonal and intergroup relations, culture and global influence
Intellectual skills
- be able to critically consider the relationship between power, politics of psychotherapy and the socio-cultural world
- developed an ability to critically analyse models of psychopathology
- enhanced skills involved in emotionally intelligent, effective relating
Professional practical skills
- reviewed the way in which personal values system and attitudes relate to their functioning as a counsellor
- interrogated the way in which power is exercised in therapeutic relationships
- understood the political positions underpinning approaches being used under the guise of therapy e.g. reparative therapy
- demonstrated the practical skills for PCEPC
Transferable (key) skills
- identified and understood the potential of using reflective research methods such as ethnography and autoethnography
- acquired a critical understanding of social processes and culture
- reviewed the use of key interpersonal skills in social situations