University of the West of England

MODULE SPECIFICATION

Code: USPJD9-10-2 Title: PERSONAL AWARENESS AND SELF DEVELOPMENT 1

Version: 4

Level: 2 UWE credit rating: 10 ECTS credit rating: 5

Module type: Professional Practice

Owning Faculty: Health and Life Sciences Field: Psychology

Valid from: September 2008 Discontinued from:

Pre-requisites: NONE

Co-requisites: USPJDK-40-2 Counselling Skills Practice & Supervision

Excluded combinations: NONE

Learning outcomes:

At the end of the module students will be able to:

• employ the Lewin/Kolb learning cycle in reflecting on personal experiences;

• describe experiences of increasing personal awareness;

• describe experiences of increasing awareness of the relevance of an openness to personal process for counsellors;

• provide an account of a counselling relationship from the client's perspective.

Syllabus content:

Weekly one to one personal counselling.

The keeping of a personal journal/log in which experiences on the course are recorded and processed using structures eg the Lewin/Kolb experiential learning cycle.

Client experience within training counselling sessions.

Weekly personal development group meetings.

Teaching and learning methods:

Personal counselling; experiential exercises; reflective journal writing.

Reading Strategy

All students will be encouraged to make full use of the print and electronic resources available to them through membership of the University. These include a range of electronic journals and a wide variety of resources available through web sites and information gateways. The University Library’s web pages provide access to subject relevant resources and services, and to the library catalogue. Many resources can be accessed remotely. Students will be presented with opportunities within the curriculum to develop their information retrieval and evaluation skills in order to identify such resources effectively.

This guidance will be available either in the module handbook, via the module information on Blackboard or through any other vehicle deemed appropriate by the module/programme leaders

Kolb D (1984) Experiential Learning Prentice Hall

Howe D (1993) On Being a Client Sage

Johns H (1996) Personal Development in Counsellor Training Cassell

Assessment

Weighting between components A and B (standard modules only) A: 100% B: %

% weighting PASS/FAIL

ATTEMPT 1

First Assessment Opportunity

Component A Element weighting

DIARY	Log of personal counselling on a weekly one to one basis	1
ES1	Personal Development Appraisal (1000 words)	1

Second Assessment Opportunity (further attendance at taught classes) NO

Component A

Description of each element Element weighting

DIARY	Log of personal counselling on a weekly one to one basis	1
ES1	Personal Development Appraisal (1000 words)	1

SECOND (OR SUBSEQUENT) ATTEMPT Attendance at taught classes. YES

Specification confirmed by …………………………………………………Date ……………………………

(Associate Dean/Programme Director)