Course details

The course is Integrative in approach. Each course module is assessed separately, by a written assignment and / or a Viva.

"The real masterpiece, in the case of supervision, is that the client is safe and the supervisee is supported to learn from the peaks and valleys of the work". Clare Burke, past student of the PCI College/Middlesex University Advanced Diploma in Supervision, gives her ideas on supervision, raising some interesting thoughts on the role.

Course Content:

  • Theories and Skills of Supervision
  • Ethical and Professional Issues in Supervision
  • Group and Organisational Supervision

Learning Outcomes:

  • To review, understand and critically reflect on theories of clinical supervision.
  • To understand developmental models of supervision and be able to apply them in supervision practice.
  • To isolate tasks, functions and roles of supervision and learn how to work with them in actual supervision sessions.
  • To learn the skills of being a supervisor and be able to implement them in work with supervisees.
  • To be able to help supervisees use supervision effectively.
  • To be aware of how inpiduals and groups learn and how to use experiential learning as a basis of learning in supervision.
  • To work with supervisees in one-to-one and group settings.
  • To be ethically aware and to have learned a process of ethical decision - making in supervision.
  • To learn the skills of reflexivity.
  • To be able to set up, contract for, maintain and terminate a supervisory arrangement effectively.
  • To be able to give and receive feedback.
  • To write clear and honest supervisory reports.
  • To be sensitive to the impact of organisations on supervision practice.

Additional Course Requirements:

50 hours of supervised Supervision Practice

Eligibility:

  • Applicants must be qualified practitioners who have begun supervising counsellors/psychotherapists (trainees or experienced) or are about to do so.
  • A minimum of three years experience as a practitioner is required.
  • Recommendation from applicant’s supervisor.

Entry is by application form and essay submission and applicants may be invited for interview. Evidence that an applicant meets the entry requirements must be furnished at interview (original transcripts in hardcopy).

Applicants are required to submit a 500 word essay of why you wish to engage in supervisor training.Your submission should show that you have the competencies to meet the requirements of the course and the ability to write essays to the required standard and to set up supervisory arrangements where you act as a supervisor.

Updated on 08 November, 2015

About PCI College

This was a time when mental health was not on the political, media or public agenda in Ireland. Liam and Josephine believed passionately in both personal development and high academic standards, both of which they combined with the foundation of the Personal Counselling Institute. The ground-breaking work pioneered by both Liam and Josephine helped begin the process to allow the counselling/psychotherapy profession to be seen on an equal footing with any other helping profession.
PCI College was set up with the intention of providing students with a broad education in counselling and psychotherapy and in 2001 the college became a Collaborative College of Middlesex University. Their programmes are characterised by an integrative, person-centred, approach to counselling & psychotherapy training. Through their extensive training, students are introduced to all the main theorists, as Theyll as being afforded the opportunity to delve into important topics such as Abnormal Psychology, Loss & Grief, Substance Addictions, to name but a few. This expansive breadth of training, in conjunction with, the provision of high quality, user-friendly teaching, is one of the key factors that each year continues to attract many students to join the growing PCI College family of qualified counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists.
With over 20 years of experience, PCI College continue with Their founders pioneering work by embracing the continued raising of academic standards in the context of proposed professional regulation, while still making training as accessible as possible; by continuing to set a high standard of personal development in training; by raising awareness around the huge range of issues that people still struggle with in this country - depression, anxiety, suicide, addictions, relationship difficulties, etc; and by promoting an integrative approach within Their field, and with Their fellow professionals.
PCI College is a leading provider of third level educational and continuing professional development cTheirses in the fields of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Psychology and Personal & Professional Development in mental health and Theyllbeing. As a college, They are committed to the provision of expert training and education in the mental health and Theyllbeing field, in the private education sector and tailor-made training to specialist groups, with centres of excellence in Dublin & Cork. 
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