About the Courses
Contextual offers
We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions. USW prides itself on it’s a student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university. Here is a link to our Contextual Admissions Policy.
Other qualifications and experience
We can also consider combinations of qualifications and other quali
Contextual offers
We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions. USW prides itself on it’s a student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university. Here is a link to our Contextual Admissions Policy.
Other qualifications and experience
We can also consider combinations of qualifications and other qualifications not listed here may also be acceptable. We can sometimes consider credits achieved at other universities and your work/life experience through an assessment of prior learning. This may be for year one entry, or advanced entry to year two or three of a course where this is possible.
To find out which qualifications have tariff points, please refer to the UCAS tariff calculator.
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You may also apply if you feel you have a relevant career history and experience of working with young people. This will usually include Level 2 or 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills plus the required 150 hours direct experience of working with young people, or with adults with social, psychological or emotional difficulties.
Modules
Year One: Counselling and Therapeutic Practice Degree
Introduction to Counselling (60 credits) - An introduction to professional skills, ethics and law in the counselling context and how these are used within the therapeutic relationship in a range of mainstream therapies. This module is also designed to stimulate your understanding of yourself and how you relate to others, and help you develop your reflective practice.
Counselling Children and Young People 1 (20 credits) – An understanding of child and adolescent development, the formation of a young person’s identity, and developing a therapeutic relationship with children and young people.
Academic Skills for Practice-Focused Learning (20 credits) – Developing your academic skills and understanding recent research findings to support your developing practice.
Mental Health and Wellbeing (20 credits) – Understanding mental health and wellbeing from different perspectives. An introduction to common mental health difficulties and how to work with these.
Completion of all modules and module assessments in year 1 will give you an HE Certificate in Counselling Studies. This does not qualify you to practice.
Year Two Modules: Counselling and Therapeutic Practice Degree
Integrative Practice 1 (60 credits) - Building on your learning from Year One, you will study professional practice skills such as writing case notes and using supervision, and apply your knowledge of ethics and law in the professional counselling context. You will continue to develop your reflective practice through personal development and provide evidence through an increasing portfolio. You will develop your use of a Pluralistic approach with an integrative model, which involves using different counselling approaches to meet the specific needs of your individual clients. You will develop a sound working knowledge of integrating a range of short term, change-orientated helping skills as well as a mix of face-to-face and online counselling.
Counselling Children and Young People 2 (20 credits) – Expanding your understanding and skills in working therapeutically with children and young people.
Online Counselling (20 credits) – An introduction to a rapidly developing area of practice in which you will be discovering the difference between counselling face-to-face and counselling online.
Counselling Older Adults (20 credits) – Developing your knowledge of older adults and honing your skills to work with this client group.
Completion of all modules and module assessments in years 1 and 2 will give you an HE Diploma in Counselling Studies. This does not qualify you to practice.
Year Three: Counselling and Therapeutic Practice Degree
Integrative Practice 2 (60 credits) - Enhancing your application of legal and ethical frameworks and professional practice to demonstrate your emerging competence in readiness for employment. Consolidating your model of therapeutic work, demonstrating your understanding and growing competence in working with complex client issues and exploring your areas of specific counselling interest.
Counselling Children and Young People 3 (20 credits) – Critically reflecting on practice and research in counselling children and young people with complex mental health issues and how to work with other professionals and family members when supporting these clients.
Working Creatively (20 credits) – Using creative ways of working therapeutically with clients across the lifespan.
Evidence-Based Practice (20 credits) – You will develop an understanding of the underpinnings of evidence-based practice informing counselling, alongside the skills necessary to critically respond to research evidence and propose an approach to undertaking a small scale research project.
Completion of all modules and module assessments in years 1, 2 and 3 alongside 100 hours minimum of supervised clinical practice will give you the BA Hons in Counselling and Therapeutic Practice which qualifies you to practice.