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PSCO40350

Academic Year 2024/2025

Advanced GA Psychotherapy 1 (PSCO40350)

Subject:
Psychotherapy
College:
Health & Agricultural Sciences
School:
Medicine
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
10
Module Coordinator:
Ms Karen O'Shea
Credit Split by Trimester:
Autumn 3
Spring 4
Summer 3
Trimester:
Year-long (12 months)
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
Module Type:
Clinical Module
How will I be graded?
Pass/Fail (GPA Neutral)

Curricular information is subject to change.

This module is offered over three years and is a core element of the Professional M.Sc. in Group Analytic Psychotherapy. Participation in analytic group therapy aims to enhance and develop the trainees’ capacity to work with unconscious processes. It further enables them to recognise and challenge defensive patterns in themselves, others and in the group as a whole. Over time, the module allows for an experience of leadership capacity in the group and in oneself. It provides an experience of psychoanalysis in a group for oneself and for others. This module provides the foundational base for all clinical and organisational group analytic work.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module trainees will be able to
• Deepen self-awareness through reflective engagement with self and others.
• Engage and participate in group and also manage to maintain an observational position.
• Give and receive honest feedback
• Increase the capacity to understand and recognise unconscious processes at work
• Bear with greater capacity emotional distress in oneself and others and to gain insight into same.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Autonomous Student Learning

250
Total

250

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
This module is experiential by its very nature due to the importance of participation in the group analytic group for the ongoing development of the trainee clinician.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Reflective Assignment: Trainees will be asked to prepare a personal reflective account of their experience of small group therapy and speak to this at an individual session. Week 14 Spring Pass/Fail Grade Scale Yes

100

 Yes

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

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