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SUPERVISION GROUPS

Venue: Room B22

Bi monthly clinical supervision session of 1.5 hours Jan-June.  


GROUP A  Tuesdays 12-1.30: Lou, Ruth, Thembie, Shelagh, Vicky  

21st February, 13th March, 8th May


GROUP B   Wednesdays 12-1.30: Sibell, Victoria, Michelle, Zara, Jo

8th February, 14th March, 16th May



DISCUSSION TAB/ FAQs/RECOURCES:

The record of personal therapy (for all students) and counselling experience (for year 2 and 3 students) is now embedded within the module activities and records must be available to the Board of Examiners to demonstrate that you have met these requirements to either progress on to the next stage of the course or award a qualification. Please note the following deadlines;

Confirmation of Personal Therapy Contract – due end of November

Confirmation of Personal Therapy Semester 1 – due Feb 1

Confirmation of Personal Therapy Semester 2 – due Sept 1

Placement Contract – due within 4 weeks of entering placement*

Confirmation of Counselling Experience Semester 1 due 1 Feb

Confirmation of Counselling Experience Semester 2 due 1 Sept

Copies of the relevant forms are available from the small filing cabinet located outside room A33, Dearing Building, Jubilee Campus.  Overdue forms must be completed and returned immediately.  Failure to return these documents may jeopardise your award or progression on to the next stage of the programme. 


PhD students Settings & Constraints Issues & Influences Therapeutic Approaches Personal Development CCYP Overview CCYP FAQs E-Books & Reading Process Groups Dissertations

Module XX4049 - CCYP:  Personal & professional Development.  

CONVENOR: Gary WINSHIP

Summary of Content: This module consolidates & reflects upon elements of good professional practice as experienced by the student through attendance in personal therapy, practice placement experience and supervision.  There will be an exploration of both personal and professional development with particular reference to issues raised in the clinical supervisor's report on the student's placement.  A key focus will be the experience of supervisory contact with an allocated supervisor at UoN.  Students are encouraged to consider the role of supervision and its importance as a source of support, education and challenge for the counselling practitioner. 


Successful completion of the module depends on participation in UoN supervision group plus the following 3 submissions:  

1. Coursework  100%:   A reflective, analytical portfolio (4-5,000 words) of student learning submitted with supervisor's report on the placement.  This should be submitted beginning of September (full-time students), end of second year for part-time students. In your portfolio you may include notes, or extracts from sessions (removing any identifying details), your may include supervision notes.  You might also want to do something creative like keep a dream diary or poems you have written in response to your practice work or personal therapy, or articles from journals, newspapers or magazines that you have read where there is some resonance with you own development as a practitioner.  You might have notes from papers you have read, photographs, poems or even doodles and these can be accompanied by reflection annotations which you have produced during the final compilation of your portfolio.  You are encouraged to gather together evidence of the creative energies that you have dedicated to your development as a practitioner; including reflections on some of the troubles, triumphs, dilemmas and tribulations you have encountered along the way.  The portfolio does not need to be bound, and you may need to use a folder (eg lever arch) if you need to collect drawings, cutting etc, but the front sheet should have the usual information as per any submission.  In terms of disguising identities, all clients identifying details where possible should be removed.  But  it is anticipated that less thick descriptions will be used in the portfoilio compared to the dissertation.  For instance, in the portfolio  you may have a section on the organisation where you have worked, conferences or meetings you have attended, including your reflections on supervision,  colleagues you have encountered and so forth.  NB: Feedback from our external examiner, professor Del Lowenthal, was that the portfolio and reflection does capture parts of personal and professional development that other aspects of the academic assessment don't.  Professor Lowenthal recommended that the portfolio write up did need to offer some rationalisation for the use of the portfolio as a means to conveying learning in this way; for example; what is the rationalisation for writing in the first person; how does poetry capture experience, what is the role of imagery etc.

2. Practical:  Evidence of engagement in a therapeutic relationship with a personal counsellor for a minimum of 40 hours (see below)

3. Practical:   Evidence of completion of the counselling placement accompanied by a satisfactory report from the supervisor.

CRITERIA FOR UNDERTAKING A PLACEMENT (for those students who are doing the applied route): 

(a)  Holder of an approved professional qualification deemed equivalent to a second-class honours degree or NVQ level 4 training in counselling 

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(a)  have one year’s previous intensive experience in a helping role (e.g. an internship, teaching etc) where interpersonal and pastoral helping skills have can be evidenced via a portofolio. 

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(b) experience in personal therapy of no less than 3 months (with a recommendation from the training therapist as to the suitability of the candidate to commence a placement). 

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(c) have enagaged in supervision (at UoN module xx4049) prior to the commencement of a placement. 

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(d) been interviewed by module XX4049 convenor where suitability to commence placement has been discussed.  

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(e) have completed the necessary child protection data forms.  


In the absence of enough experience to form a portfolio students would be recommended to consider a voluntary placement whereby they will have some exposure to children and young people who have mental health problems.