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Counselling Skills and Ethical Decision Making

This module introduces you to the Person-Centred and Experiential Scale as a humanistic skills learning and assessment tool.

You will be introduced to setting the therapeutic frame with clients and establishing the working alliance. Student practice will be assessed via the PCEPS with particular reference to PC1-6.

You will also be introduced to topics linking with PC7-10 in this module, and to the BACP OPT competences through discussion and experiential work (followed up with a Saturday workshop in Year 2).

The module also demonstrates the need to raise awareness of ethical issues across a range of challenging counselling situations. You will be introduced to an ethical problem-solving model and also explore the significance of counsellor confidentiality, professional boundaries, contracting, risk assessment and counsellor’s limits of competence.

You will explore effective ways of ending a session with clients. Familiarity with BACP’s Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy 2018 will underpin this module, formally introducing you to this framework and its application in remote working.

The module will also discuss professional standards with clients in all OPT communications, including text-based correspondence outside of OPT sessions.

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