| CODE | COU5216 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Standards and Ethics in Counselling Supervision | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Counselling | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Counselling supervision is a professional and legal requirement in Malta and most jurisdictions. This study-unit will develop and enhance participants’ capacity to identify and monitor practice standards according to legal and ethical frameworks. Counselling supervision is a professional and legal requirement in Malta and most jurisdictions. This study-unit will develop and enhance participants’ capacity to identify and monitor practice standards according to legal and ethical frameworks. This study-unit will provide opportunities for trainees to discuss and critically examine various ethical situations that may arise in the counselling supervision settings in Malta. It will also seek to examine contextual and ethnic differences and how these impinge on different ethical considerations throughout the world. Study-unit Aims: • Develop participants’ knowledge of relevant ethical concepts and professional codes of practice; • Identify and assist students in practicing the principles of ethical decision-making in counselling supervision; • Introduce and develop the knowledge and skills necessary to monitor clinical counselling practice and identify emerging ethical dilemmas; • Enable participant’s to facilitate supervisees in responding to ethical issues as they arise in counselling practice. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - discuss key theoretical components of professional ethics; - critically evaluate the application of professional ethics to counselling supervision; - analyse legal and ethical standards required for working in different counselling contexts; - demonstrate an understanding of recurrent ethical issues in practice (e.g. in dual professional relationships, confidentiality, responding to cultural diversity). 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - conceptualise and implement the skills of ethical contracting in face-to-face and online counselling supervision; - develop and improve the skills of monitoring clinical practice to identify and discuss ethical dilemmas arising from own work; - demonstrate critical reflection on the implications of diversity and cultural difference in ethical practice for counselling and counselling supervision; - demonstrate adequate skills in facilitating others (eg supervisees or colleagues) to address ethical issues arising from their counselling practice. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Text - Bond, T. (2015). Standards and ethics for counselling in action (4th ed.). London: Sage Publications. Supplementary Readings - Bond, T., & Mitchels, B. (2008). Confidentiality and record keeping in counselling and psychotherapy. London: Sage. - Bond, T., & Sandhu, A. (2005). Therapists in court: providing evidence and supporting witnesses. London: Sage. - Page, S., & Wosket, V. (2013). Supervising the counsellor: A cyclical model: Routledge. - Remley, T. P., & Herlihy, B. (2007). Ethical, legal, and professional issues in counseling: Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall. - Robson, M., & Whelan, L. (2006). Virtue out of necessity? Reflections on a telephone supervision relationship. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 6(3), 202 - 208. - Watson, Z. E., Herlihy, B. R., & Pierce, L. A. (2006). Forging the link between multicultural competence and ethical counseling practice: A historical perspective. Counseling and Values, 50(2), 99-107. - Wheeler, S., & Richards, K. (2007). The impact of clinical supervision on counsellors and therapists, their practice and their clients: A systematic review of the literature. Lutterworth: BACP. - Wosket, V. (2009). Relational ethics in supervision. Relational Ethics In Practice, Narratives from Counselling and Psychotherapy, 44-57. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Tim Bond Dione Mifsud Catherine Smith |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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