14 | PSYCHOLOGY
BSc (Hons) Psychology with Counselling – Single Honours
Psychology has strong links with the study of counselling skills.
This route combines the common core of psychology modules
from the Single Honours Psychology route with additional
modules focusing on Counselling theories and skills. Combining
study of Psychology and Counselling enables students to
develop knowledge and skills pertinent to understanding why
individuals become distressed and to develop a knowledge-
base, relevant research expertise together with listening and
helping skills oriented towards a career in counselling or other
helping professions.
This course broadly follows the Single Honours modular
structure with an additional module per semester across each
year of the course on Counselling. The first year Counselling
content provides a broad overview of mental health problems
and their causes, viewed from differing theoretical perspectives,
as well as first steps in Counselling, by considering how people
view and engage with others. In second year modules introduce
issues pertinent to the discipline of Counselling as well as the
preferred theoretical approach to Counselling adopted at Keele
– the Person Centred approach. In third year students become
engaged in the skills required to practice Counselling and the
absolute necessity for self-reflection as training and knowledge
progresses. Keele University has been delivering counselling
courses since the early 1970s and was one of the first to provide
counsellor training in the UK.
Compulsory modules Optional modules
Introduction to Social and Developmental Psychology None
Introduction to Research Design
Introduction to Biological and Cognitive Psychology
Introduction to Statistics for Psychology
Natural, unnatural, supernatural: the psychology
of unusual phenomena
Applied Psychology
Understanding self and others better: an introduction
to counselling theories
Distress and Mental Health
Developmental and Social Psychology Cognitive Development
Qualitative and Survey Research Design Psychopathology
Biological and Cognitive Psychology The Psychology of Advertising
Statistics for Psychology The Psychology of Crime, Investigation and Punishment
Cognitive Neuroscience
Person-centred counselling theory
Issues and perspectives in counselling
Choose 1 optional module in Year 2
Final Year Project Psychology in Education
Key Readings in Cognitive Psychology Making a Difference with Psychology
Individual Differences and Conceptual and Historical Issues
in Psychology The Psychology of Deviance
Culture and Psychology Groups, Crowds and Conflict
Counselling skills and perspectives Faces, Forgetting and Forensic Psychology
Personal and professional development in person-centred
counselling Health Psychology
Choose 1 optional module in Year 3
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