Fundamentals of Therapeutic Skills

Module overview

This module teaches you the fundamental clinical skills needed to engage with adult clients, to help you assess their readiness to change, and to plan appropriate behavioural interventions. You will make use of these skills in workshop based teaching for other modules on the Programme and will learn how to adapt your approach when working with clients from diverse backgrounds. You will build on your skills to prepare clients for ending therapy and reduce the risk of relapse. Teaching will cover face to face and consideration of online delivery of therapy.

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching will involve a combination of lectures, workshops and seminars. You will take part in role-play exercises and small group presentations. You will be required to carry out directed reading and independent study.

Study time
Type	Hours
Teaching	50
Independent Study	150
Total study time	200

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Salkovskis, P.M. (1996). Frontiers of Cognitive Therapy: The State of the Art and Beyond. New York: Guilford.

Palmer, S. (2002). Multicultural Counselling: A reader. Sage..

Aldridge, S. and Rigby, S (Eds) (2001). Counselling skills in context. Hodder and Stoughton.

Miller, W.R. & Rollnick, S. (2002). Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change. New York: Guilford.

D’Ardenne, P. (2013). Counselling in Transcultural Settings. Sage.

Burnham, J. (2011). Developments in Social Graces: Visible-invisible and voiced-unvoiced. Culture and reflexivity in Systemic Psychotherapy: Mutual Perspectives. London: Karnak.

Westbrook, D., Kennerly, H. & Kirk, J. (2007). An Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Skills and Applications. London: Sage.

Hayes, S. (2004). A practical guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. New York: Springer.

Egan, G. (2014). The Skilled Helper: A client centred approach. Cengage Learning EMEA.

Lago, C. (Ed) (2011). The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy. OUP.

Assessment

Assessment strategy

Formative feedback is given in class. Summative feedback is based on a five minute role play of counselling skills (20%) and a write up of behaviour change over a four week period (80%)

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Video	20%
Report	80%

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Coursework assignment(s)	100%

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External