Module: Professional Practice Portfolio 2

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Professional Practice Portfolio 2
Module Code	NS5031 (ITS) / PST1012 (Banner)
Faculty	Science & Health	School	Nursing, PsyT & Comm Health
Module Co-ordinator	Ray O'Neill
Module Teachers	Gerard Moore
NFQ level	9	Credit Rating	10
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

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Description

The Professional Practice Portfolio (PPP2) module builds on the module in year 1 of the MSc in Psychotherapy. The purpose of this module is to expand students’ knowledge, skills, and awareness of integrative psychotherapy practice, supervision, and the therapeutic use of self, in order to facilitate integration of their professional and personal development as trainee psychotherapists. The module provides guidance on professional practice issues and clinical presentations, on issues that enhance and constrain the therapeutic use of self, and on ethics and reflexivity. It encourages exploration, critique and self-awareness regarding integrative psychotherapeutic theories and practices. It facilitates students to develop an integrative psychotherapy perspective in their clinical work. Students are expected to attend personal therapy and group awareness/personal development sessions, engage in direct clinical practice, attend clinical supervision on an individual and group basis, and participate in class-based discussion, reading and on-line directed learning activities. The course work will be maintained in students' portfolios which will provide evidence and a record of their personal and professional development over the duration of the course.

Learning Outcomes

1. Develop and further explore therapeutic uses and senses of self, particularly through their different clinical encounters in personal therapy, supervision, and clinical work.
2. Demonstrate a proficiency in personal / professional reflexivity and engagement.
3. Explore and engage with integrative psychotherapy theories and practices, in relation to a range of personal and client presenting issues.
4. Develop understanding and apply relevant core clinical competences as defined in the European Association of Psychotherapy Core Competences guide (2013).
5. Appropriately utilise individual and group supervision for professional and personal development purposes.
6. Evidence active reciprocity and learnings through both their personal therapy work and from their engagements with Personal Awareness groups to enhance their professional formation and personal development in order to evidence their capacities to hold the three therapeutic spaces of being the speaker, the listener, and the active observer.
7. Model the psychotherapeutic dynamic in being open, mindful, respectful, and responsible to and for all dyadic and group dynamics, for both staff and students, holding a balance between and attendance to both internal responses and external responsibilities.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Seminars	18	Tutor led Seminars and Psychotherapeutic skills practice
Group work	20	Clinical Group supervision
Group work	15	Personal Awareness Groups
Clinical placement	80	Direct client work in an approved placement setting
Clinical placement	20	Individual Supervision
Directed learning	20	Personal therapy
Fieldwork	30	Maintaining personal / professional reflection journals and reflective assignments.
Portfolio Preparation	47	Self-directed learning – preparation for and review of case work and supervision, maintaining personal / professional reflection journal and assignment, portfolio building
Total Workload: 250

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Professional & Personal Development
Through personal and interpersonal experiential enquiry, individually, in groups, within class, and through supervision, the student will develop reflexive awareness of self-other relationships, identify the possibilities and constraints of their personal values, and understand the use of self in the therapeutic process. The student will also demonstrate appreciation and understandings of balancing self-care alongside shared self-other responsibilities within both groups and classroom spaces to staff and other students. The student will be supported to understand a range of integrative and generic psychotherapy competencies (EAP 2013) and to actively reflect on and discuss their progress and developmental challenges. Indicative learning activities include discussion and exploration of common client presentations such as bereavement, grief/ loss, suicidality and working with diversity.

Clinical Practice
The student will engage in direct work with clients presenting with a range of emotional and psychological issues in at least one practice setting. This work will entail critically engaging with a range of integrative psychotherapeutic models in relation to client needs and will be carried out in approved clinical placement contexts that are student orientated and are fully and appropriately supported through clinical supervision.

Clinical Supervision
The student will engage in formal supervision of their clinical practice in individual supervision and group supervision formats. This will involve presentation of case work and integration of theory and practice, which can involve retrospective reflection on the student’s work in a range of ways, such as written reflective notes and audio / video recordings. Supervision will be conducted with accredited supervisors who are clinically competent in particular areas of work in which the student is engaged.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Practical/skills evaluation	Clinical Session analysis – audio recording, transcription, and reflective commentary	30%	Week 19
Assignment	Personal Reflective Recording -A 15-minute Audio Recording which provides both a critical evaluation and in-depth discussion, grounded on a key encounter/experience that has evoked a core question/concern/ resistance/learning for your personal development and professional formation.	25%	Sem 2 End
Reflective journal	Your PAG Engagement will be assessed through a process involving yourself, your PAG peers, and your facilitator.	20%	As required
Practical/skills evaluation	1) In-Class Clinical Case Study and 2) End of Year Group Supervision Report	20%	As required
Professional Portfolio	Confirmed clinical and personal development logs - Clinical practice logs and reports; clinical supervision logs and reports; and personal therapy and personal development logs and reports.	5%	Sem 2 End

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Ababio, B. ed.: 2023, Intercultural Supervision in Therapeutic Practice, Dialogues, Perspectives and Reflections., Routledge, London,
Bager-Charleson, Sofie: 2010, Reflective Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy,
Bolton, G.: 2014, Reflective practice: Writing and professional development., 4th ed., Sage, London,
Casement, Patrick: 1985, On Learning from the Patient, Psychology Press, 0415025532
Comas-Díaz, L., & Torres Rivera, E. (Eds.).: 2020, Liberation psychology: Theory, method, practice, and social justice. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000198-000, 0000198-000
Creaner, M.: 2014, Getting the Best Out of Supervision in Counselling and Psychotherapy- Guide for the Supervisee., Sage, London,
Feltham, C. & Horton, I. (eds.): 2012, The Sage handbook of psychotherapy and counselling, 3rd ed., Sage, London,
Grover, Naveen Lakhani, Sheetal Emran, Ashti: 2021, Reflective practice in action: an account of psychotherapists’ experiences in group-work training Routledge, 14623943.2021
Hartman et al: 2023, The Adult Autism Assessment Handbook: A Neurodiversity Affirmative Approach,
Hawkins, P. & Shohet, R.: 2012, Supervision in the helping professions, 4th ed., Open University Press, Milton Keynes,
Kahn, Michael: 1997, Between Therapist and Client, Macmillan, 0805071008
Kaur, Rupi: 2022, Healing Through Words., Simon and Schuster,, UK,
Kearney, Anne: 2018, Counselling, Class And Politics: Undeclared Influences In Therapy, 2nd edition,
Mc Kenzie-Mavinga, Isha et al: 2023, Therapy in Colour: Intersectional, Anti-Racist and Intercultural Approaches by Therapists of Colour,
Mahon, Daryl.: 2023, Evidence Based Counseling and Psychotherapy for the 21st Century Practitioner.,
Maroda, Karen J.: 2004, The Power of Countertransference, Routledge, 088163414X
Neves, Silva and Davies, Dominic: 2023, Relationally Queer: A Pink Therapy Guide for Practitioners,
Wosket, V: 1999, The Therapeutic Use of Self: Counselling Practice, Research & Supervision, Routledge, London,
0: European Association of Psychotherapy’s (EAP: 2013) framework of core competencies in practising psychotherapy.(http://www.europsyche.org/download/cms/100510/Final-Core-Competencies-v-3-3_July2013.pdf), 313578
2015: Ethical Framework, BACP, Rugby, England, 313579
0: Ethical Framework, IACP, Dublin, Ireland, 313580
2015: Relational psychotherapy: A primer., 2nd, Routledge, New York,

Other Resources

64089, Journal, 0, Clinical Case Studies, 64090, Recommended Journal, 0, Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, 64091, Recommended Journal, 0, In Session, 64092, Recommended Reading, 0, Other reading resources will be provided during the module,