Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024 No Banner module data is available
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Description This module incorporates three key components of the taught Doctorate Programme, 1) psychotherapy practice 2) psychotherapy supervision / consultation and 3) personal / professional development, which together form a core stream over the first year of the programme. The purpose of this module is to enhance candidates’ knowledge, skills and reflexive capacity in order to facilitate advanced integration of theory, practice and research and of their personal and professional selves. Candidates are expected to engage in advanced psychotherapy practice, psychotherapy consultation / supervision, personal awareness work, in-class presentations, class based discussion and experiential work, and self-directed learning activities. This work will be recorded in their personal journals and presented in their Professional Portfolio, which provides evidence and a record of their personal and professional development over the duration of the module. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Practice and Supervision related competencies: • Demonstrate advanced competency in clinical practice with complex cases. • Critically appraise a range of therapy models / approaches to clinical practice. • Engage in multi-dimensional case conceptualisation and case management and advanced integration of theory, practice and research. • Integrate knowledge of best practice in psychotherapy and engage in critical debate about practice issues. • Demonstrate understanding of how the self of the therapist influences the therapeutic relationship and therapy process. • Demonstrate competence in therapeutic decision-making (e.g. incorporating legal and professional regulations and obligations 2. Personal and Professional development related competencies: • Demonstrate a capacity to give critical, enabling feedback to peers. • Demonstrate capacity to integrate feedback from peers and facilitator. • Demonstrate emotional and psychological availability to engage in critical self and relational reflection. • Demonstrate increased capacity in personal / professional integration. • Demonstrate ability to appraise personal and professional strengths and limitations. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
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Indicative Reading List
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Other Resources 65348, 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), | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||