PSYC06021 2022 Personal Development B: Group and Personal Process Work

General Details

Full Title
Personal Development B: Group and Personal Process Work
Transcript Title
PDB: Group and Process Work
Code
PSYC06021
Attendance
N/A %
Subject Area
PSYC - 0313 Psychology
Department
SOCS - Social Sciences
Level
06 - Level 6
Credit
10 - 10 Credits
Duration
Semester
Fee
Start Term
2022 - Full Academic Year 2022-23
End Term
9999 - The End of Time
Author(s)
Elizabeth Haran, Anna Fewer-Hamilton, Breda McTaggart, Tamsin Cavaliero, Brenda Feeney, Ailise McDowell
Programme Membership
SG_PCOUN_E06 202200 Certificate in Introductory Counselling Skills
Description

In this experiential module, participants will learn about elementary group processes and engage in groupwork in a supportive and facilitated environment. The emphasis will be to build capacity for insight through structured reflective practice, individually and with peers.  The group will provide a space to explore, and be supported with, ongoing work/ role issues. The use of creative facilitation methods will provide a space for participants to explore and reflect on a range of identity positions (e.g. health, ethnic, racial, poverty, cultural etc.) in ways that are accessible to all participants.  Students will draw on these creative methods to design and create a mechanism for communicating this information in an attractive and intelligible way, that can be easily modified in accordance with the changing resource landscape and communication technology.  

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module the learner will/should be able to;

1.

Participate in creative and reflective exercises in a group context.

2.

Engage effectively in the group appreciative of the need for understandings of heterogeneity and professional support.

3.

Transfer and apply theoretical knowledge of group processes to personal experiences in the group.

4.

Give and receive feedback in accessible and culturally sensitive ways appreciative of power dynamics.

5.

Critically reflect on health, ethnic, racial, poverty and cultural discourses.

6.

Critically reflect on practice to identify areas of competence and limitation, in order to develop.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Participants will engage in experiential groupwork via a series of themed experiential workshops. Module delivery takes place through inclusive practice and creative methods in recognition of the need to accommodate diverse needs and learning styles using scenarios from current helping contexts.  Experiential workshops will be delivered in 2-day blocks on 3 occasions during the semester.

Module Assessment Strategies

Assessment includes both individual and group elements.  Learners must pass all elements of the assessment in order to pass the module.  Learners are required to create a digital portfolio containing written, visual and audio elements and participate in a creative group reflection activity.

Repeat Assessments

Repeat assessment procedures will require student to repeat submit the failed element of the module. 

Indicative Syllabus

Groupwork:

Group dynamics; group think; stages and characteristics in groups; types of group; roles; the facilitator; group process.  L.O's 3, 5

Contracting:

Confidentiality; boundaries; feedback; conflict. L.O's 1,2,3,4

Reflective Practice and Supervision:

Models of reflective practice; critical incidents; ethical dilemmas; trauma and self care; supervision. L.O's 1,2,3, 6

Culturally Sensitive Approaches

Diverse Knowledge systems, diverse ways of knowing, privileged knowledge, knowledge ownership. L.O's: 2,4,5, 6

Creative Facilitation 

Creative responses to social exclusion, Visual Thinking, Developing Creative Connections. L.O's 1, 4

Coursework & Assessment Breakdown

Coursework & Continuous Assessment
100 %

Coursework Assessment

Title Type Form Percent Week Learning Outcomes Assessed
1 Reflective Writing Project Written Report/Essay 40 % Week 15 2,6
2 Presentation and Facilitated Discussion Project Group Project 30 % Week 7 3,4
3 Mapping the Conversation Practical Group Project 30 % Week 13 1,5

Part Time Mode Workload


Type Location Description Hours Frequency Avg Workload
Workshop / Seminar Flat Classroom Experiential Personal Development Workshop 10 Monthly 2.50
Independent Learning Not Specified Independent Learning 5 Weekly 5.00
Total Part Time Average Weekly Learner Contact Time 2.50 Hours

Online Learning Mode Workload


Type Location Description Hours Frequency Avg Workload
Online Lecture Online Live Classroom 1 Weekly 1.00
Total Online Learning Average Weekly Learner Contact Time 1.00 Hours

Required & Recommended Book List

Required Reading
2015-01-01 Theory and Practice of Group Counseling Cengage Learning
ISBN 1305088018 ISBN-13 9781305088016

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GROUP COUNSELING, 9th Edition, gives students an in-depth overview of the eleven group counseling theories. In addition to illustrating how to put these theories into practice, this best-selling text guides students in developing their own syntheses of various aspects of the theories. With Coreys clear, straightforward writing style, students are able to grasp each theoretical concept and its relationship to group practice with ease. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Required Reading
2013-12-10 Getting the Best Out of Supervision in Counselling & Psychotherapy SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 0857029061 ISBN-13 9780857029065

Getting the Best Out of Supervision in Counselling & Psychotherapy does exactly what it says on the tin! Supervision is an essential part of counselling training and ensuring you know exactly how to get the very most out of supervision is important, whatever their level of study. Exploring how to begin, maintain and end a supervisory learning relationship in the context of existing theory and best practice guidelines, the author will introduce your trainees to: Models and forms of supervision The skills informing good supervision What to expect from supervision Key professional issues in supervision ? Written in a lively and engaging style, this book will enable both supervisors and supervisees to get the best they can from the supervisory experience.

Required Reading
2013 Humanness in Organisations Routledge
ISBN 178049193X ISBN-13 9781780491936

Humanness in Organizations is a unique contribution from the social sciences to the betterment of organizational life. The authors argue that working life can only become more humane when we change the conditions that consciously or unconsciously steer people away from consideration, friendship and integrity. The aim of this book is twofold: first, to take a closer look at the current practices of managers, academics, and consultants, and how they affect organizational conditions, work and the well-being of people. The critical studies presented here explore and develop the likely consequences of these practices for the future. Second, the authors wish to familiarize readers with 'actionable knowledge' in order to create alternative practices and conditions that enable the whole person to engage in healthier interactions both in and with his organization. Nine social scientists from Europe or the United States, each with an established reputation in the field of consulting with a psychodynamic or 'clinical perspective', have contributed their experiences and studies to the book.

Required Reading
2013-01-01 The Sketchnote Handbook Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0321857895 ISBN-13 9780321857897

Presents a guide to creating illustrated meeting notes which diagram important ideas and people, with tips on drawing techniques.

Required Reading
2012 The Graphic Facilitator's Guide
ISBN 0615591876 ISBN-13 9780615591872

Graphic facilitation is the practice of using words and images to create a conceptual map of a conversation. A graphic facilitator is the visual, usually silent partner to the traditional, verbal facilitator, drawing a large scale image at the front of the room in real-time. Graphic facilitation is both process and product. Watching the graphic facilitator create the map as the group speaks is highly experiential and immediate. It focuses the group as they work, aiding concentration by capturing and organizing their ideas. Everyone can watch their ideas take shape.

Required Reading
2018-05-03 Making is Connecting Polity
ISBN 1509513477 ISBN-13 9781509513475

SECOND UPDATED EDITION, WITH THREE ALL-NEW CHAPTERS The first edition of Making is Connecting struck a chord with crafters, YouTubers, makers, music producers, artists and coders alike. David Gauntlett argues that through making things, people engage with the world and create connections with each other. Online and offline, we see that people want to make their mark, and to make connections. This shift from a sit-back-and-be-told culture to a making-and-doing culture means that a vast array of people are exchanging their own ideas, videos, and other creative material online, as well as engaging in real-world crafts, music projects, and hands-on experiences. Drawing on evidence from psychology, politics, philosophy, and economics, Gauntlett shows that this everyday creative engagement is necessary and essential for the happiness and survival of modern societies. This fully revised second edition includes many new sections as well as three brand new chapters on creative processes, do-it-yourself strategies, and platforms for creativity.

Required Reading
2007 Creative Explorations
ISBN 041539659X ISBN-13 9780415396592

Explores the ways in which researchers embrace people's creativity in order to understand social experience. This book outlines studies in which people have been asked to make visual things and then interpret them. It provides insights into how individuals present themselves, understand their own life story, and connect with the social world.

Required Reading
1999 The Essential Groupworker Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 9781853028236 ISBN-13 1853028231

Focusing on how groupwork can be learnt and taught, the authors of this accessible and lively book consider what is essential in effective work with groups. They develop a practice model which is applicable to a wide range of approaches and actively promotes anti-oppressive groupwork. It has been extensively trialled and refined in a mainstream social services agency. Using `activities' to promote the reader's understanding and involvement, The Essential Groupworker describes how to plan, set up and maintain a working group. The authors look at the ways in which power and power relations, and individual and group identities influence the success or failure of a group. They show how to evaluate outcomes and apply knowledge gained through experience, and consider ways of approaching group endings. Written for students, practitioners and educators, The Essential Groupworker will stimulate effective and creative groupwork practice in a wide variety of settings.

Required Reading
2018-11-20 Working More Creatively with Groups
ISBN 113832194X ISBN-13 9781138321946

Revised edition of the author's Working more creatively with groups, 2010.

Required Reading
2016-02-01 Universal Design for Learning
ISBN 0989867404 ISBN-13 9780989867405

In the 1990s, Anne Meyer, David Rose, and their colleagues at CAST introduced universal design for learning (UDL), a framework to improve teaching and learning. Universal Design for Learning: Theory & Practice includes: * New insights from research on learner differences and how human variability plays out in learning environments * Research-based discussions of what it means to become expert at learning * First-hand accounts and exemplars of how to implement UDL at all levels and across subjects using the UDL Guidelines * "Dig Deeper" segments that enrich the main content * Dozens of original illustrations and access to videos and other online features at http://udltheorypractice.cast.org * Opportunities to participate in a UDL community

Required Reading
2021-07-08 Group
ISBN 1471197905 ISBN-13 9781471197901

A memoir by a young lawyer who describes her experiences going through group therapy.

Required Reading
2017-02-03 Living a Feminist Life
ISBN 0822363194 ISBN-13 9780822363194

Showing how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist, Sara Ahmed highlights the ties between feminist theory and living a life that sustains it by building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship and discussing the figure of the feminist killjoy.

Recommended Reading
10/11/2021 Unsettled Skein Press

Required Reading
2021-03-03 The Well Gardened Mind William Collins
ISBN 000810073X ISBN-13 9780008100735

'The wisest book I've read for many years ... Much more than a gardening book, much more than a guide to mental health ... Hugely recommended' Stephen Fry THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020

Required Reading
2016-11-11 In the Wake
ISBN 0822362945 ISBN-13 9780822362944

Using the multiple meanings of wake to illustrate the ways Black lives are determined by slavery s afterlives, Christina Sharpe weaves personal experiences with readings of literary and artistic representations of Black life and death to examine what survives in the face of insistent violence and the possibilities for resistance."

Required Reading
2019-05-02 White Fragility
ISBN 0141990562 ISBN-13 9780141990569

Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reactions only serve to silence people of colour, who cannot give honest feedback to 'liberal' white people lest they provoke a dangerous emotional reaction. Robin DiAngelo coined the term 'White Fragility' in 2011 to describe this process and is here to show us how it serves to uphold the system of white supremacy. Using knowledge and insight gained over decades of running racial awareness workshops and working on this idea as a Professor of Whiteness Studies, she shows us how we can start having more honest conversations, listen to each other better and react to feedback with grace and humility. It is not enough to simply hold abstract progressive views and condemn the obvious racists on social media - change starts with us all at a practical, granular level, and it is time for all white people to take responsibility for relinquishing their own racial supremacy.

Required Reading
2020-03-09 The Race Conversation Confer Books
ISBN 1913494268 ISBN-13 9781913494261

The construct of race is an integral part of Western society's DNA, and to a large extent, is what makes it tick. If we are to address the social injustice of racism, we need to have the race conversation. Focussing specifically on the non-verbal communication of race, both as a means of social control and as an essential part of navigating oppressive patterns, this guide supports black, white and mixed heritage people to emerge from the tight grip of race discomfort to a traumainformed, neurophysiological approach to dialogue that emphasises resourcing, body awareness, mindfulness and healing. Is it possible not to be confused about race? Is it possible to respond authentically to the hurt and discomfort of racism? The construct of race is an integral part of Western society's DNA and if we are to address the social injustice of racism, we need to have the race conversation. Yet all too often, attempts at such a dialogue are met with silence, denial, anger or hate. The Race Conversation explores how the damage and distress caused by racism lives not just in our minds, but principally in the body. As well as helping us to develop a cognitive understanding by exploring the history and development of the race construct, the book focuses specifically on the non-verbal communication of race, both as a means of social control and as an essential part of navigating oppressive patterns. This guide supports black, white and mixed heritage people to emerge from the tight grip of race discomfort to a trauma-informed, neurophysiological approach that emphasises resourcing, body awareness, mindfulness and healing.

Module Resources

Non ISBN Literary Resources
Journal Resources

Groupwork Journal - Whiting and Birch

https://journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/GPWK/about

Groupwork is the only British-based journal specialising in social applications of groupwork. It is peer reviewed and international in coverage, with articles on all the settings in which groupwork is practised, including health, nursing, occupational therapy, staff development, mental health, counselling, child care and education, youth and community work, social work, and criminal justice.

URL Resources

https://www.blacktherapistsireland.ie

https://davidgauntlett.com/blog/

Other Resources
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