PY0759 - Counselling and Interpersonal Processes in Sport and Exercise

You will participate in lectures, workshops and tutorials designed to provide breadth and depth of conceptual knowledge across topics in counselling and interpersonal processes in sport and exercise. Independent study will give you further opportunity to enhance skills in critical analysis and explore key theoretical underpinnings and practical contexts relating to professional practice. Much of the learning on this module will be experiential, including some student-led workshops where you will work collaboratively in small groups to generate and present interactive sessions, facilitated by small group tutorials. As a recipient of others’ workshops you will experience and reflect on ethical guidelines and controversial issues in the discipline. You will also develop employability skills by gaining access to a range of experiences, resources and potential career pathways.

Resources will be available via the e-learning portal, including lecture slides and related supplementary materials, recommended readings and useful psychometric instruments. Discussion boards, workshop preparation meetings and tutorials will support the planning of workshops, and current information will be presented to help you to explore a range of potential graduate employment pathways, self-employment and further study options. You will also be given a logbook template on which you can record the topics covered in the module and your personal reflection on these. Your entries can form the basis of tutorials, act as reminder of the areas you have covered, as well as enhance your employability options.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. Online reading lists (provided after enrolment) give you access to your reading material for your modules. The Library works in partnership with your module tutors to ensure you have access to the material that you need.

Knowledge & Understanding:
1. Formulate a rationale for, and critically evaluate, the use of theoretical approaches to counselling.
2. Debate and reflect on research into interpersonal issues in sport and exercise contexts.
Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
1. Communicate effectively and disseminate information appropriately to a range of stakeholders.
2. Develop and enhance professional competence and employability skills through engagement with a variety of sources.
Personal Values Attributes:
1. Articulate and integrate ethical guidelines relating to practice and research in sport and exercise psychology.

Formative assessment:
Module tutor feedback will be given during the preparation of and after the student-led workshop presentations.
Written, anonymised peer feedback will be provided after the workshops.
Summative assessment:
The module assessment will comprise of one submission with two parts:
Part 1 – 80%: a 3000 word written assignment based on a case study which will provide the opportunity for students to demonstrate their achievement of learning outcomes KU1, KU2, IP2, PV1.
Part 2 – 20%: a one-page hand-out to a specified sports coach, manager or leader providing advice on how to deal with particular interpersonal issues KU2, IP1.

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The aim of this module is to critically examine theoretical perspectives used in counselling and apply them to a number of interpersonal processes encountered in sport and exercise settings. Weekly lectures complemented by experiential workshops will give students the opportunity to examine life events, belief systems and cognitive distortions. Some of the workshops will be student-led, where small groups will work collaboratively to plan and deliver an experiential session designed to expand in depth on as aspect of the lecture topic. Assessment will consist of a case study report supported by psychological research and include your own rationale for adopting a particular counselling approach, as well as a report written in lay language advising a sports coach, teacher or manager. These experiences satisfy British Psychological Society criteria for coverage of core areas of cognitive processes, social processes and professional skills, thus enhancing your graduate attributes for further qualifications and employability.