Psychodynamic Approaches

Description

Are you interested in how people develop and how they relate to each other, both personally and in organisations? Do you want to lay the foundations for a professional qualification to work therapeutically with children and adolescents/adults?
Taught on our Colchester Campus, this course offers a grounding in psychodynamic theory and its applications and is a pre-requisite for our MA Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (If you have taken our FdA/BA Therapeutic Communication and Therapeutic Organisations (TCTO) course you can enter the MA direct.).
This course is the ideal bridge for psychology students who wish to progress in the field of psychodynamic counselling. It also provides a route into counselling and psychotherapy for professionals, such as teachers, social workers, nurses and care workers.
It is not possible to study via distance learning on this course.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 5200 Year (EEA)
• GBP 8950 Year (Non-EEA)

• English

Course Content

The course lasts for 9 months (full-time), starting in October, and consists of modules and weekly seminars to develop your understanding of psychodynamic theory and its applications. The theory seminars provide the opportunity to learn about the key concepts underpinning psychodynamic counselling and psychotherapy, exploring the ethics and wider social contexts of counselling in order to prepare you for the professional role. The observation seminars help you to develop the skills needed in psychodynamic work and the practical workshops and skill-based learning put theory into practice. To help you build your professional capacities and the qualities needed for undertaking professional counselling training, one module will consist of a weekend residential, personal development tutorials and the production of a reflective report.

Modules

Core modules

Counselling Skills With Children And Adolescents
Personal Development

Compulsory modules

Counselling Contexts
Organisational Dynamics - Theory
Personality Development
Psychodynamic Concepts
Psychodynamic Observation

Core modules must be taken and passed.
Core with options modules selected from limited lists must be taken and passed.
Compulsory modules must be taken.
Compulsory with options modules selected from limited lists must be taken.
Optional modules are selected from course specific lists.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6.5

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

Our applicants should have a good first degree (First or Upper Second Class) or an equivalent professional qualification. Applicants without such qualifications, who can otherwise demonstrate relevant experience and academic ability, will also be considered.
If English is not your first language, then we require IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.
If your initial application is successful, you will be invited to an interview with our Course Director.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Essex.

Funding

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