Psychotherapy and Counselling MSc
University of Warwick
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Psychotherapy and Counselling offered as a part time MSc with a clinical placement will provide you with in-depth clinical training. Join Warwicks Centre for Lifelong Learning and work with field experts as you develop psychotherapeutic and counselling skills.Course OverviewThe course will provide an in-depth clinical training which integrates theory and best practice from a suitable range of psychotherapeutic and counselling approaches framed distinctively by a holistic view of the self and ...Read more

Psychotherapy and Counselling offered as a part time MSc with a clinical placement will provide you with in-depth clinical training. Join Warwick's Centre for Lifelong Learning and work with field experts as you develop psychotherapeutic and counselling skills.

Course Overview

The course will provide an in-depth clinical training which integrates theory and best practice from a suitable range of psychotherapeutic and counselling approaches framed distinctively by a holistic view of the self and human experience. The course will include a supervised clinical placement which requires a minimum of 100 hours of therapeutic client work during the masters programme as well as a balance of teaching and learning in theory professional knowledge and individual development.

Teaching

One evening each week (4.5 contact hours) plus one Saturday a month (6 hours). Learning is via a combination of formal lecture seminar practice development experiential learning and personal development groups. There is also a requirement for 450 clinical practice hours in a community based placement setting (with 1 to 6 hours supervision requirements) plus a minimum of 35 hours a year personal therapy. Typical group size is around 15 students.

Skills from this degree

  • Use a range of meaningful and effective integrative approaches to develop relational skills for application to therapeutic practice
  • Address a broad range of client need including more complex and severe mental health difficulties
  • Apply a high level of relevant academic and professional knowledge to a range of settings which provide counselling psychotherapy and mental health services
  • Utilise personal development opportunities to enhance interpersonal skills
  • Acquire research skills and knowledge which are relevant to the counselling and psychotherapy field and which can inform and enhance evidence based practice

Careers

Our approaches to therapy are geared to the current economic climate graduates may have the opportunity to work within a range of sectors:

NHS and community roles
Work within the third sector/private sector - (GP Surgeries Hospices Survivors of Domestics Abuse or Substance).

On completion of the Masters and required hours via the UKCP either during the Masters programme or during the post-Masters Accreditation Programme graduates can register as a qualified Psychotherapeutic Counsellor.

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Minimum requirements BA/BSc (or equivalent) 2:1 (Hons) in psychology social sciences arts-related subject; basic counselling skills training and evidence of experience of forming and sustaining helping relationships (either employed or voluntary). (Where appropriate applicants with significant relevant study and professional and personal development qualifications and experience which does not equate to 2.i level will be considered on a case by case basis).

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University of Warwick
University of Warwick Coventry Coventry CV4 7AL United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Canley  0.8 miles away

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