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LP10560: Introduction to assessment

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Department for Health (administered by the Learning Partnerships Office)
Credits: 6      [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Certificate (FHEQ level 4)
Period:
Academic Year at Action on Addiction
Assessment Summary: CW 50%, ES 50%
Assessment Detail:
  • Essay (1200 words) (ES 50%)
  • Role Play Exercise Evaluation (1200 words) (CW 50%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Description: Aims:
This unit explores the process of assessment and identifies relevant domains for assessment. It introduces assessment as a dynamic, multi-disciplinary process, which involves and motivates the client, and responds to changing needs.

Learning Outcomes:
Having completed this unit, students will be able to:
* Identify relevant domains for assessment.
* Describe a model of assessment as a multi-disciplinary process, which involves the client, is dynamic, motivating and responds to changing needs.
* Demonstrate an attitude of collaboration with the client, to maximise the client's motivation and responsibility for change
* Demonstrate and reflect on the principles of assessment by semi-structured interview.

Skills:
Intellectual Skills
* Analysis of verbal reports and data from questionnaires [T/A]
* Categorising and prioritising areas of need [T/A}
Professional Skills
* Use of counselling skills to structure, track and pace interviews [T/F]
* Using diagnostic criteria to identify hazardous/harmful use and dependence [T/A]
* Assessment of Risk [T/F]
Practical Skills
* Observing and learning from demonstration interviews [F]
* Carrying out mock interviews in the classroom [T/F]
Key Skills
* Note taking and Report writing [T/F]
* Essay research, preparation and writing [F}
* the use of IT to communicate and manage information [F]

Content:
This unit is concerned with:
* Domains of comprehensive assessment.
* Psycho-social history - structure and purpose.
* Psycho-social history - interviewing demonstration and practice.
* Substance use history - structure and purpose.
* Substance use history - interviewing demonstration and practice.
Programme availability:

LP10560 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Programmes administered by the Learning Partnerships Office
  • UHHL-KFF09 : FdSc Addictions Counselling (Full-time at Action on Addiction)

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2018/19 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2019/20 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2018/19.
  • Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
  • Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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