{"id":35876,"date":"2019-11-30T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/counsellingtu.onpressidium.com\/?p=35876"},"modified":"2023-08-15T08:53:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:53:37","slug":"competence-in-counselling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/counsellingtutor.com\/competence-in-counselling\/","title":{"rendered":"132 \u2013 Working within Your Competence in Counselling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t\"Counselling\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

132 – Working within Your Competence in Counselling<\/h1>\n\t

Getting an Assignment Referred – Differences between Role Play and Real Play<\/h2>\n\t
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In episode 132 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Ken Kelly and Rory Lees-Oakes talk about the experience of getting an assignment referred. ‘Check-In with CPCAB’ then focuses on differences between role play (working with made-up scenarios) and real play (working with real situations) in peer work. Finally, the presenters discuss working within your competence in counselling.<\/p>\n\t

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Getting an Assignment Referred (starts at 2.15 mins)<\/h2>\n\t

Having an assignment ‘referred’ means getting an assignment that you have submitted back with a request for you to add or change certain parts so that it meets the criteria fully.<\/p>\n

Getting an assignment referred can lead to feelings of failure, frustration, anger and self-doubt – especially if the experience keys into old memories of not getting good marks at school.<\/p>\n

But the fact is that almost everyone has assignments referred at some point during their training, so don’t feel alone if this happens to you.<\/p>\n

The most common reason for referral is not having answered the exact question<\/em><\/strong> – what you have written may well be of a good quality but if it doesn’t exactly address the question, your tutor will be unable to pass it.<\/p>\n

Rory’s top tip is to look at the verb in the instruction<\/strong> – for example, are you being asked to describe, analyse, evaluate or reflect?<\/p>\n

Each of these has a different meaning. It can be useful to look at Bloom’s taxonomy<\/a> in this respect, and you’ll find material on this in our Counselling Study Resource<\/a> (CSR).<\/p>\n

Other tips from Ken and Rory here include the following:<\/h4>\n