91799 Clinical Practice 2 (Psychotherapy)

Students must complete a minimum of 50 hours of supervised counselling and/or psychotherapy practice during the Masters year. During this clinical practice, students work under supervision either as counsellors in selected outplacements or as private practitioners. Students are expected to pay particular attention to assessment and treatment planning, to skills of dealing with client resistance, to issues of countertransference, and especially to the evaluation of their clinical practice and their clinical skills. The provision of evidence of this attention is part of the assessment. This subject builds on the practice gained in the Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy offered by the Jansen Newman Institute, where skills of dealing empathically and insightfully with resistance were a common focus. These skills, with the additional skills of assessment and treatment planning and clinical skills evaluation, are expected to be developed at a more advanced level within the Master's program.

Assessment: This subject is graded as Pass or Fail and its satisfactory completion is essential for the completion of the Master of Applied Psychotherapy (C04206).

Typical availability

Autumn semester, City campus
Spring semester, City campus