Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Clinical Practice I

In this module, you will undertake clinical work with patients, over a minimum of 42 weeks a yearfor two years. This will take place in a setting agreed with the programme staffthat will allow you to see patients for psychodynamic psychotherapy under the weekly clinical supervisionof an accredited senior psychodynamic/psychoanalytic therapist. 

You will keep a written record of the sessions, in a form agreed with your clinical supervisor,and use this to presentyour work and reflect on it withyour clinical supervisor weekly and from time to timeother programme members, staff and students, during clinical discussions. You will also produce a written report inyear 2. 

All other stage one modules are a co-requisite to this module.On coming to the module students must have had experience of working therapeutically with people or the equivalent or transferable skills constituting the equivalent.This module is taught in the first and second year of your study. 

Clinical hours are counted as 50 mins. Your casework with individual clients will consist of a total requirement of 200 clinical hours with must include:  

You are required to write up notesofsessions with your patients, in a manner agreed with your supervisorand liaisein an appropriate mannerwhen necessary with other professionals involvedwith a patient. You will complete a record of your work with your patients on any case file kept by an institution in which you see patients.   

You will attend Clinical supervision for168 hours over a minimum of 42 weeks per year, during the period that you are engaged in clinical work. 

In relation to your Report of Clinical Activity: Account of a Case assignment submission, where you have been given amendments, major or minor, you will have the opportunity to submit an amended version of your Report, which addresses the points made in the feedback you are given, by the marker(s) and moderator. You must also write a letter to the marker, accompanying your resubmission, which describes how you have addressed the points made in the feedback. You will have 4 weeks to complete minor amendments and 8 weeks to complete major amendments. 

If you have major amendments and your resubmission is marked as needing minor amendments, you will then have 4 weeks to resubmit a second time. If you have minor amendments and if on re-marking your resubmission still requires minor amendments you will gain a ‘fail’ mark. If you fail an assignment you will be given the opportunity to submit a completely new submission and will have 8 weeks to do this in. 

If you again failyou will then have failed in the module and consequently you will have failed the programmealsoand your registration as a student of the University will be terminated. 

If you do not reach a ‘satisfactory’ level, or above, in the assessments of your clinical work, in all categories in your final report, you will be allowed to undertake a further period of clinical work of up to six months, in order to allow you to reach this minimum, ‘satisfactory’ level. If this has not been reached by then there will be a meeting between you, your supervisor(s) and programme staff, to consider whether it is possible for you to achieve a ‘satisfactory’ level. If there isagreement that it may be possible, you can have a further period of up to six months clinical work. If it is not you will have failed the module and your registration as a student of the University will be terminated. 

More information regarding assessment of pre-dissertation modules can be found here: http://as.exeter.ac.uk/academic-policy-standards/tqa-manual/pgr/professionaldoctoratepgr/#assess including the Flowchart of professional doctorate assessment process. 

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