This module aims to build on and deepen the students’ previous learning and experience of working at relational depth within the therapeutic alliance in clinical practice. The Module will enable students to gain an in-depth understanding and critical awareness of various theoretical and clinical perspectives to working at relational depth within counselling and psychotherapy. In addition, this module will assist students to reflect on the clinical, ethical and relational implications in counselling practice of the various approaches, appreciate issues of power and diversity in the therapeutic relationship, and assist them in articulating their own philosophical and clinical stance with regards to working at relational depth in the therapeutic relationship.
This module enables students to gain an in-depth understanding and critical awareness of the skills and strategies utilised in cognitive behaviour therapy for a variety of psychological disorders and recognise the complexity of their use in the clinical setting, including the use of process and outcome measures to evaluate CBT in clinical practice. In addition, this module will assist students to critically review the current body of knowledge of cognitive behaviour therapy.
