This module gives you an opportunity to consolidate your expertise in applying the humanistic competences PC1-10 from the PCEPS Scale part one. You will practise and be assessed in PC 1-10 with a specific focus on PC 7-10.
This module also further develops your professional and ethical awareness, exploring physical contact with clients, counsellor self-disclosure, client outcomes, the process of therapy, maintaining the therapeutic relationship, relationships in therapy, working with therapeutic obstacles and outcome measures.
You will explore the implications of OPT work for the therapeutic process and ethical issues involved in OPT working, including the need to maintain client safety and confidentiality in relation to data protection, technology and data threats.
You will be able to demonstrate your knowledge of assessment processes for face-to-face and OPT work, including working within your competencies and identifying emerging mental health issues.
The module aims to familiarise you with contemporary issues that impact counselling practice. This will involve raising awareness of professional issues such as the purpose and place of supervision in the counselling profession, how to make the best use of supervision, exploring the differences between in-the-room therapy (ITR) and online and phone therapy (OPT), exploring how ITR and OPT can be blended to meet changing needs, and how to monitor safe practice such that we work within our own limits.
