BA (Hons) Counselling

Course overview

Core modules

• Collaborative Practice: Identifying and Working with Counselling Stakeholders (COBC3025)

  Collaborative Practice: Identifying & Working with Counselling Stakeholders examines multi -agency working and inter - professional collaborative practice in building sustainable Counselling provision. It encourages students to reflect on current trends, structures and contexts, the nature and sustainability of Counselling provision, and highlights the need for flexible and effective teamwork in the context of contemporary Counselling settings.

• Dissertation (COBC3026)

  The Dissertation module is a student-led small-scale research project which culminates in a 10,000 word final dissertation. The topic is chosen by the student and approved by the student’s dissertation supervisor. It must be related to a relevant counselling discipline, subject, or theme.

• Leadership in a Counselling Setting (COBC3027)

  This module examines the key theories and practice skills required for effective leadership, management and administration in Counselling settings. It considers leadership theory from an individual, team and organisational perspective, and considers problem solving approaches, as well as ways of dealing with conflict, unhealthy behaviours, and notions of quality, diversity and individual values, whilst focusing on Counselling service users and project management.

• Counselling within a contemporary context: working with culture, diversity and difference (COBC3028)

  The focus of this module is on the development of cultural understanding within contemporary counselling contexts. The influences and implications of, and for culture, identity, ethnicity, class, disability, gender, sexuality and contemporary issues will be explored in relation to counselling and supervisory relationships.

• Coaching and Mentoring (COBC3029)

  This module focuses on the identification, practice and development of integrative coaching and mentoring skills to assist with the development of high performing teams in Counselling organisations. Learners will develop the skills required to initiate, maintain and conclude a coaching and/or mentoring interaction. Learners will also explore some of the main theoretical approaches which underpin coaching and mentoring and explore how they may be applied appropriately in Counselling settings.