Unit information: Introduction to Counselling Inquiry in 2008/09

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Unit name Introduction to Counselling Inquiry
Unit code EDUCM5105
Credit points 20
Level of study M/7
Teaching block(s) Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52)
Unit director Dr. Chromy
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

School/department School of Education
Faculty Faculty of Social Sciences and Law

Description including Unit Aims

The unit will provide education and training in the processes and skills of research in counselling and psychotherapy. It will offer an understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of the relevant social science research methodologies and facilitate an understanding of the ethical issues relevant to research in counselling, psychotherapy, and with different cultural groups. The education and training offered in the unit aims to prepare students ethically, methodologically and conceptually for their own research, to be undertaken as the dissertation component of the MSc programme.