Personal and Professional Relationships

Overview

Framework:
Access to HE 2024
Level:
Level 3
Unit No:
Not available
Credits:
3
Guided learning hours:
Not available

Qualification Grading Type

Graded

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Unit Learning Outcomes

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1. — Know different personal and professional relationships.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1.

    Evaluate different interpersonal roles and styles, peer influence and power in relationships.

  • 1.2.

    Explain:

    • a) power imbalance within relationships
    • b) dual relationships and their appropriateness and inappropriateness.
2. — Understand professional relationships between service users and counselling professionals.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1.

    Explain different types of professional relationship which exist between service users and particular professionals.

  • 2.2.

    Explain the development and maintenance of professional relationships between colleagues and between counselling professionals and service users.

3. — Understand the importance of communication in developing professional relationships.

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1.

    Explain different methods of communication used to develop professional relationships.

  • 3.2.

    Explain the impact of poor communication on professional relationships.