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PSCO40400

Academic Year 2024/2025

Adv Sup, Clinical Inq/Prac 3 (PSCO40400)

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.
• Identify, explore and address areas in need of development in their psychotherapeutic work
• Display effective appropriate ongoing assessment of potential clients, for individual or group psychotherapy.
• Show autonomy in decision making whilst maintaining ethical standards and an awareness of limits of competence.
• Maintain appropriate engagement with peers and professional colleagues.
• Continue to integrate the therapeutic skills and attitude into their clinical practice.
• Advance the skills and intervention strategies to deal with complex communications and destructive process in their clinical practice.
• Continue to identify and synthesise the application of key theoretical concepts, displaying how they relate to psychotherapeutic 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
Individual Project: Trainees complete a clinical research project demonstrating their practice and literature review of key theme(s) and including an overall reflection on their reflective journal. 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

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

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