Module Code - Title:
EN6114
-
COUNSELLING THEORY AND PRACTICE 2
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This is a follow-on module from Counselling Theory and Practice 1 in Year 1. It focuses on expanding the micro skills of counselling relevant to client's needs in the context of guidance counselling practice.
Syllabus:
This module focuses on expanding the micro skills of counselling relevant to client's needs in the context of guidance counselling practice. Syllabus includes structured approaches to counselling such as Egan and Nelson-Jones. The personal development component looks specifically at the guidance counsellor as a person and his/her personal and professional trajectory. Specific reference is made to issues relevant to personal, social, educational and career guidance counselling across different settings. The integration of counselling theories will be expanded to include Theoretical Integration, Technical Eclecticism and Common Factors approaches. Relevant research in the field of counselling will be examined in a quest for the most effective schools of counselling in the context of guidance counselling practice.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Exhibit the ability to assess the guidance counselling needs of the students and adults and respond appropriately in order to support their future goals and life plans.
Demonstrate confidence and competence in the creation of a counselling relationship that responds to a range of personal, social, educational and vocational concerns with students and adults.
Demonstrate competence in the conducting of individual guidance counselling sessions with young people and adults.
Exercise effective management of professional boundaries in the context of one's competencies and the employment of appropriate referral procedures when necessary.
Demonstrate ability to integrate theory, research and practice with confidence in guidance counselling practicum.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Exhibit ability to examine own personal process which contributes to one's personal development and empathic understanding of needs of clients.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Lectures, small group teaching, case study, and role play. Critical pedagogical techniques used to develop reflective skills and attributes.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Cooper, M. & McLeod, J. (2011)
Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy
, London; Sage
Corey, G. (2013)
Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy, 9th ed.
, Pacific Heights, CA: Brooks-Cole Cengage Learning
Egan, G. (2014)
The Skilled Helper: A Client Centred Approach
, Australia: Cengage Learning
Geldard, K. & Geldard, D. (2010)
Counseling Adolescents: The proactive approach for young people, 3rd ed.
, London: Sage
Nelson-Jones, R. (2014)
Practical Counselling and Helping Skills, 6th ed.
, London: Sage
Sugarman, L. (2004)
Counselling and the Life Course
, London: Sage
Reid, H. & Westergaard, J. (2011)
Effective Counselling with Young People
, Learning Matters: Exeter
Wosket, V. (2006)
Egan's Skilled Helper Model: Developments and Application in Counselling
, London: Routledge
Other Relevant Texts:
Bozarth, J. (1998)
Person-centred Therapy: A Revolutionary Paradigm
, Ross-on-Wye, Herts: PCCS Books
McLeod, J. (2007)
Counselling Skill
, Maidenhead: Open University Press
Tolan, J. & Wilkins, P. (Eds.) (2012)
Client Issues in Counselling and Psychotherapy
, London: Sage
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
siobhan.keogh@ul.ie