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PSCO40620

Academic Year 2025/2026

Personal Professional Development and Integration (PPDI) Y3 (PSCO40620)

Subject:
Psychotherapy
College:
Health & Agricultural Sciences
School:
Medicine
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Ms Diane Hanly
Credit Split by Trimester:
Autumn 2.5
Spring 2.5
Trimester:
2 Trimester duration (Aut-Spr)
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.

PPDI is a way of integrating the learning from all other course modules with trainees personal and professional experience. There will be several different experiential and reflective tasks designed to promote self-reflexivity in students. These come from an understanding that supervision, training, and therapeutic practice are all connected through the processes of learning and development. These group experiences, including a progressive and more advanced understanding of the personal genogram as each year progresses, will contribute to a greater awareness of the role students’ own personal and professional experiences play in their professional practice online and face to face. The module will assist students learning about the complexity of the process of change in oneself and others. PPDI is a module that continues across the four years of the programme with the aim to continue to foster students’ personal reflections and self-reflexivity.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

The students will acquire an expanded range of personal and cultural knowledge arising from reflection upon the
connection between their own life experience and their experiences of professional practice. Additionally, students will learn about the way in which the ethical character of therapeutic practice is shaped by the centrality of such reflection. Students will also be assisted to make connections between the ethics of professional practice and the ethics of research on professional practice.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Specified Learning Activities

45
Autonomous Student Learning

65
Small Group

12
Total

122

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Peer and group work, small groups discussion, class activities

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: 1) Formative – Submission of PPDI Portfolio Exercises.
2) Graded (Pass/Fail) – Submission of final PPDI Portfolio Exercises.		 Week 12 Autumn, Week 6 Spring Pass/Fail Grade Scale No
100
 No

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Remediation Type Remediation Timing
Repeat Within Two Trimesters
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment - on the Portfolio Feedback individually to students, post-assessment - on the Portfolio (Summative)

Name Role
Ms Diane Hanly Tutor
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