Here are the dates and times during our welcome week when your teaching team will be expecting you on campus for welcome activity. Come to main reception and the welcome mentors will get you to the correct rooms:

• 22.09.23 10-1 DW101

Team

Kathryn Broome – Lecturer / Module lead (Introductory Certificate in Counselling)

Dr Bill Naylor – Senior Lecturer/ Programme lead (Single Honours)

Brief Summary

In Semester 1, September 2023, you will begin by studying Counselling Professions and Academic Practice.

In this module, you will be introduced to counselling and counselling-related skills and professions in the UK and to issues of ethics and ethical practice in counselling.

In the Humanistic Counselling module, you will become familiar with humanistic counselling approaches such as Carl Rogers’ Person-Centred approach and develop an understanding of its ‘core conditions’ (e.g., empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence).

In The Inclusive Practitioner, you will think about the importance of inclusive practice and look at how children, young people and families can become excluded and strategies to minimise this happening.

Teaching will take the form of lectures and seminars, including group discussions.

Pre-Course Reading/Activities

Core texts for Counselling Studies are:

McLeod, J. (2019) An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy: Theory, research and practice. 6th edn. London: Open University Press.
Reeves, A. (2018) An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy. From Theory to Practice. London: Sage.

You might like to peruse one these before you begin your studies.

Planned Online Meetings

Thursday 8th September. 14.00 Linda Luckhurst and another member of the UG counselling team (tbc)

Join this meeting

Timetable information

Semester 1

Mondays 9.00 – 12.00 and 13.00 – 16.00
Thursdays 10.00 – 12.00 and 13.00 – 15.00

Full details of your individual academic timetable will be available via your university email calendar after you have completed online enrolment and set up your student login.

Subject Sessions

Mondays 14:00 – 17:00

Even if your course team are not expecting you to be in during Welcome Week on Tuesday 19th September, we strongly encourage you to come in and participate in our Student Union Fresher’s Fair.

Running between 10am and 3pm, it will give you a great insight into the Student Union, its societies and its engagement with community groups and employers. You can find out more at Newman Students’ Union – Your Voice.