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PSCO40470

Academic Year 2024/2025

Group Analytic Psychotherapy (PSCO40470)

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 year long module is core element of the training and aims to introduce students to the therapeutic experience of group analytic psychotherapy. The work of small group therapy is of professional and personal benefit. It involves a process which, as Foulkes says, contains a “spiral” element in that we return to different issues and questions overtime to address them in different ways.

Small group affords students an opportunity to experience and participate in the here and now dynamic of the group. Through participation in the relational dynamics of group life, students develop self-awareness and an appreciation of the benefits of group analytic psychotherapy.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:


On completion of this module students will:
• Contribute to group life through reflections on the experience in the group
• Present early group life experience as it arises in the group
• Explore insights into their own internal world as they arise in the group
• Display an openness to experience the unconscious through honest and spontaneous contribution in the group.

Indicative Module Content:

This year long module is core element of the training and aims to introduce students to the therapeutic experience of group analytic psychotherapy. The work of small group therapy is of professional and personal benefit. It involves a process which, as Foulkes says, contains a “spiral” element in that we return to different issues and questions overtime to address them in different ways.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Autonomous Student Learning

250
Total

250

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
This module is experiential in nature and requires active engagement in a group analytic therapy 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
Reflective Assignment: Engagement in Group Therapy Process

Trainees will be asked to prepare a personal reflective account of their experience of small group therapy and speak to this at an individual oral assessment,		 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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