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PSCO40390

Academic Year 2024/2025

Adv Sup, Clinical Inq/Prac 2 (PSCO40390)

Subject:
Psychotherapy
College:
Health & Agricultural Sciences
School:
Medicine
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
8
Module Coordinator:
Ms Karen O'Shea
Credit Split by Trimester:
Autumn 2.5
Spring 2.5
Summer 2.5
Trimester:
Year-long (12 months)
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
Module Type:
Clinical Module
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

In this module is offered over the final 3 years of the Professional Masters In Group Analytic Psychotherapy where trainees are required to set up and conduct a clinical psychotherapy group and use the advanced supervision group as a corner stone to guide their nascent practice. Trainees are expected to reflexively engage in the process and openly explore endopsychic dynamics to address challenges towards best practice standards. They will also contribute actively to the learning of others in the supervision group by reflecting on and applying group analytic principles and attitudes to the work.
Trainees are expected to take full responsibility for all aspects of the clinical group formation, from referral network development, to location management, assessment and selection lf group members. In the course of the three years’ trainees are required to maintain a comprehensive and up-to-date portfolio of work, including relevant correspondence and notes, to support a focused group analytically informed presentation in supervision.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

• Demonstrate effective use of group supervision through taking on feedback, linking insight and learning to practice, reflexively critiquing self and constructively critiquing others
• Display effective ongoing assessment of potential clients for individual and or group psychotherapy, including considered assessment of complex presentations, appropriate selection and continued focus on group composition
• Develop capacity for increasing autonomy in decision making and appropriate engagement with peers and professional colleagues.
• Continue to develop the skills needed to establish and sensitively maintain the therapeutic alliance with clients and group.
• Demonstrate a group analytic attitude and associated leadership skills in maintaining the group experience, with emphasis on ongoing dynamic administration, boundary management, levels of communication, mirroring, resonance, translating, working with transference and countertransference and exploring unconscious dynamics.
• Identify and synthesise the application of key theoretical concepts, displaying how they relate to group process and guide practice.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

0
Autonomous Student Learning

187
Total

187

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
This module is experiential in nature and requires active engagement in supervision, practice and reflection. Trainees are expected to establish a professional group analytic practice and to bring all their group analytic skills to bear in the planning and execution of that task. Trainees will be required to present material for discussion and are expected to constructively critique their own and other trainees practice experiences and form a professional network outside of the supervision group.

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
Portfolio: Trainees present a portfolio of work which evidences the middle phase of their training group, Week 12 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
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

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