(Award available for year: Postgraduate Certificate)
On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- demonstrate in-depth specialist knowledge of techniques relevant to the discipline or to demonstrate an advanced understanding of concepts, information and techniques informed by knowledge across, or in aspects at, the forefront of psychotherapy and counselling;
- exhibit competence in the exercise of generic and counselling and psychotherapy specific intellectual abilities;
- demonstrate an advanced understanding of techniques applicable to their own research, advanced scholarship or area of specific interest within psychotherapy and counselling
- take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships with others;
- proactively to formulate ideas and hypotheses and to evaluate these;
- evaluate current issues and research in psychotherapy and counselling.
- demonstrate an in depth understanding of complex and severe and enduring mental health problems in the critical application of research informed psychotherapeutic theory in advanced practice
- demonstrate critical self and intersubjective awareness as a relational psychotherapist who can relate with openness, and articulate awareness with sensitivity in relationships.
Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in psychotherapy and counselling
- evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
- self-direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;
- independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
- critically to engage in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.
Achievement for the Postgraduate Certificate will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:
- demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area;
- drawing on a range of perspectives on psychotherapy and counselling
- evaluating received opinion;
- making sound judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.
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