PA224-5-AP-CZ:
Advanced Psychodynamic Observation and Reflective Practice
2022/23
Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Distance Learning
Autumn & Spring
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Thursday 06 October 2022
Friday 24 March 2023
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10 December 2021
Requisites for this module
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FDA LX51CZ Therapeutic Communication and Therapeutic Organisations
This module aims to enhance and further strengthen students' theoretical and practice-based understanding of psychodynamic observation and the skills and qualities involved. In addition, students will continue to develop professional skills involved in assessment and case presentation.
Students will learn to apply their growing grasp of psychodynamic theory to everyday professional encounters and to develop their appreciation of the role of unconscious and emotional communication in working life. They will hone their perception and receptivity in terms of detail and develop their sensitivity to what they observe and the importance of noticing their own emotional responses. It will enable them to reflect on their own process in observations and in groups and to become more self-aware. They will become increasingly alert to the conscious and unconscious ways in which their capacity to observe and participate in learning is influenced by their experiences, and the way their own self-awareness affects their capacity to provide therapeutic care to others.
As in year 1, students will continue developing a psychodynamic approach to reflective practice by further readings on Reflective Practice, attending Reflective Groups and maintaining a Reflective Journal. These activities encourage and support the conscious use of self (self awareness) in social and professional relationships, the experience of 'learning from action' and a recognition of oneself as a 'participant observer' in different contexts. The reflective components bring the theoretical learning into the personhood of the student and thus more effectively into actual practice.
The aims of the module are:
• To develop a keener eye for the detail of human behaviour and interaction
• To increase awareness of the role of emotional communication and the unconscious in everyday events and encounters
• To understand the application of psychodynamic concepts and insights to all aspects of human experience
• To deepen their capacity to use psychodynamic observation as a key skill in psychodynamic practice
• To develop employability skills related to psychodynamic assessment and case presentation and reflective practice
• To establish a reflective space for acknowledging and processing the emotional and psychological implications of the material studied on this course
• To develop the capacity for self-reflection and an awareness of the influence of one’s own processes and personal experiences
By the end of the module students will have:
• A deeper understanding psychodynamic observation theory including its application to organisations
• An enhanced understanding of key concepts and ideas in reflective practice
• Greater ability to observe detail and to perceive subtle indications of emotional and unconscious dynamics
• Familiarity with the role of conscious and unconscious mechanisms in relationships
• Awareness of the use of psychodynamic observation in work with clients
• The capacity to apply psychodynamic thinking to everyday professional encounters
• An enhanced capacity to reflect on one’s own process in the observing and in the learning contexts
• Further development of the capacity to be reflective and recognise the relationship between self-awareness and therapeutic care
You will attend a Reflective Group. There will be three such groups in the Autumn Term. The groups are facilitated by teaching staff but they will be in a distinct role within the groups as facilitators and not as tutors. They will introduce the purpose of the group, their own role and they will keep time. Each Reflective Group will occur within the teaching day. It will last for 50 mins. Afterwards there will be 10 minutes to consider the experience.
Seminars lasting 2hrs per week will concentrate on the discussion of observation presentations. Students will be asked to undertake their own observations in the workplace, to write these up and present them in seminars. Later in the term, to support and underpin this practice, there will be a series of Theory Seminars followed by a Reflective Group.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Mr Chris Tanner, email: chris.tanner@essex.ac.uk.
Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Student Administrator, 5A.202, telephone 01206 874969, email ppsug@essex.ac.uk
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Dr Anthony John Faramelli
Goldsmiths
Lecturer in Visual Cultures
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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