Institute of Counselling Reviews

The course content and materials were very good overall. However, I would like to make a few comments: 1.Study materials: The pdf files that materials come in are protected, which means that nothing can be either copied for printing or highlighted for studying electronically. This meant I had to print out all materials to make highlight and notes. Further, I like to copy and paste assignment tasks for tutor's and my own reference in the Portfolio, however, I found I had to take screenshots of that instead or type it all up myself. To conclude, the protected document mode was highly frustrating to me. 2.Study materials: The study materials come in parts, rather than in one large document. This means that when you want to look up something specific and you cannot remember where you read it, you need to search in a number of different documents, instead of one. This, combined with inability to highlight important concepts or attach notes (see point 1 above about protected document mode), makes it doubly difficult and frustrating. 3.TMA: I felt that TMA guidelines could have been more specific and mapped out on to the marking criteria more clearly. This generated some anxiety in me as I was worried I may not have covered everything, and that what I covered may not score many points as per marking criteria. 4.TMA: Finally, it would be helpful to have word count guidance for each section of TMA (at the moment, only the overall and the word count for the transcript part is provided).

As previously mentioned I feel it was well designed, easy to follow and to relate to with client work. I found one part a little confusing which explained the downward arrow technique and the difference between this and the DRDT did not seem clear. However this was cleared up by my tutor.

Excellent. I feel more confident as a result of this course.