Assessment Rationale / Aims:
Develop person-centred counselling relationships based on the therapeutic conditions of congruence, unconditional positive regard and empathy. To facilitate students’ personal and professional development. To facilitate students in exploration of their impact on others. To prepare students for assessed recorded counselling work.
Learning Outcomes for the Assessment:
Demonstrate an ability to form and maintain a therapeutic relationship based on congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathy
Show understanding of self and empathic resonance and how this impacts on counselling practice
Demonstrate an ability to reflect critically on person-centred counselling practice
Show an ability to use Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) in practical skills work and in audio taping of skills work
The Brief (general description of the coursework requirements)
Summative assessment (Marked or graded for the module)
The assessment is in two parts.
Part 1 (LO1)
Demonstration of the ability to offer a person-centred counselling relationship based on congruence, unconditional positive regard and empathy in a 20min taped audio recording.The counselling session may have taken place face-to-face or remotely.
If in placement and with appropriate consent the student should provide a recording from placement, otherwise a peer session can be used. If using a peer session this cannot be a session where formative tutor feedback has already been given.
Part 2 (LOs 2/3 and 4)
A transcription of the session accompanied by a 2500 word process/analysis examination of the 20minute audio recording in Part 1 relating theory to practice. (The transcription does not form part of the word count). The process/analysis section should contain references to person-centred theory, this may include citations and/or direct quotes.
For a remote counselling session knowledge of the BACP Online and Phone Therapy competency framework should also be shown. A word count for the process/analysis section should be provided and a reference list should be provided at the end.
Recommended Reading for the module:
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (2021) Online and Phone Therapy (OPT) Competence Framework. Lutterworth, Leicestershire: BACP House.
Bager-Charleson, S. (2012) Personal Development in Counselling and Psychotherapy. London: Sage.
Cooper, M., O`Hara, M., Schmid, P., and Bohart, A. (eds.) (2013) Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling (2nd edition). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Knox, R., and Cooper, M. (2015) The Therapeutic Relationship in Counselling and Psychotherapy. London: Sage.
