Unit 3 Assessment

This document provides the assessment for Unit 3 on Diversity and Ethics in Counselling, covering all three modules. It allows learners to demonstrate their understanding through applied questions, requiring the use of examples, wider reading, and proper referencing.

Unit 3 Assessment

This assessment covers all three modules present in Diversity and Ethics unit.

The following questions will allow you the opportunity to demonstrate the depth of your new learning which you have developed through the use of your learning resource and any further research and wider reading you have performed.

Throughout this assessment, it is expected that you demonstrate your understanding through the use of examples so that you can apply your learning to real life situations.

Key Tips

• Remember to review the assessment command verbs so that you can present the expected level of evidence for each question.
• The content provided throughout your learning resources will help support your performance within this assessment. However, you are encouraged to perform wider reading using other forms of information so that the depth of your knowledge is enhanced.
• Finally, it is important that you meet your assessment deadline so that your progress can be maintained and to ensure you complete your qualification on time.

How to Answer the Questions

Assessment questions are a common way to test your knowledge and understanding of a subject. To answer these questions effectively, it’s essential to identify the type of response that is expected. Command verbs play a crucial role in this process, as they indicate the specific action you should take when answering the question. In this section, we will help you identify command verbs in assessment questions and provide tips on how to respond to them.

What Are Command Verbs?

Command verbs are words that instruct you on what to do in response to a question or prompt. They are usually action words that specify the task you need to perform. Recognizing these verbs is essential for understanding the nature of the response expected in your answer.

Common Command Verbs

Here is a list of common command verbs that you may encounter in assessment questions.

Level 1

• Identify: List or name the main points.
• Outline: Set out the main characteristics or features of a topic.
• Describe: Provide a detailed account of a topic, including its characteristics, features, and examples.
• Explain: Make an idea or concept clear by providing details, examples, relevant facts and giving reasons.
• Summarise: Provide a brief statement of the main points of a topic, without going into detailed explanations.
• State: Give the main points in brief, clear sentences, without providing detailed explanations or examples.
• Define: Give the meaning of a word or phrase, often in a concise and precise manner.

Level 2

• Identify: Point something out or give a list of main features
• Outline: Give a brief account of the main features of a topic, without going into detailed explanations.
• Describe: Provide a detailed account ofa topic, including its characteristics, features, and examples.
• Explain: Set out purposes or reasons or make something clear in relation to a particular situation. An explanation requires understanding to be demonstrated
• Summarise: Give the main ideas or facts in a concise way
• State: Express clearly and briefly.
• Define: Give a definition or specify meaning of an idea or concept.
• Compare: Examine subject matter to ne the similarities and differeneces.
• Evaluate: Make a qualitative judgement taking into account different factors and using available knowledge/experience/evidence.
• Analyse: Break the topic down into sepratate parts and examine each part. Show how the main idea are realted and whey they are imprtant.
• Discuss: Give and accoutn that addresses a range of ideas and arguments.

Reference Guide

The Harvard format is as follows for each type of source:

Referencing After a Quotation

When referencing a source after a quotation, the Harvard format is: (Hill, 2004, p.42)

Referencing a Book in the Bibliography

When referencing a book in the bibliography, the Harvard format is:

Hill, P. (2004) Concepts of coaching: a guide for managers. ILM, London

Referencing an Article

When referencing an article, the Harvard format is:

Grant, A.M. (2010) It takes time: a “stages of change” perspective on the adoption of workplace coaching skills. Journal of Change Management, 10(1), pp. 61–77

Referencing a Website

When referencing a website, the Harvard format is:

Hill, P (2004) Concepts of coaching: a guide for managers. Available at http://websiteaddress Accessed 27/07/16.

Important

When referencing a source, you must provide the name of the author, the date of their work that you have referred to and the page number or the website URL and date accessed, immediately after the quotation.

Important

You must provide a bibliography (a list of books, articles and any other sources you have quoted) at the end of your assessment.

Plagiarism and Academic Integrity

Most of every assessment must be your original work. Substantial copying is unacceptable as this does not demonstrate your knowledge, let alone your ability to apply it. Even if acknowledged and properly referenced, excessive use of other people’s work is unacceptable.

Using Quotations

• If you use someone else’s exact words in your work, they must be in quotation marks.
• Use quotations sparingly and only when you feel the author has expressed something so well and so concisely that the words cannot be improved upon.
• If you give your own explanation of somebody else’s work without quoting word for word, you must reference your source.

Referencing Requirements

• When referencing a source, you must provide the name of the author, the date of their work that you have referred to and the page number or the website URL and date accessed, immediately after the quotation.
• You must provide a bibliography (a list of books, articles and any other sources you have quoted) at the end of your assessment.

Note: This mock assessment covers contents which are present in content/courses/psychology/counselling-content/level2-counselling/04-dirversity-ethics.

Mock Assessment

Q1a - Name an ethical framework relevant to the use of counselling skills. (1.1)

Q1b - Identify the key aspects of the named ethical framework. (1.2)

Q1c - Describe how the ethical framework underpins the use of your own counselling skills. (1.3)

Q2 - Outline ways in which people experience discrimination. (2.1)

Q3 - Describe two examples of your own experiences or observations of discrimination (2.2)

Q4 - Describe key legal aspects of anti-discriminatory practice, making reference to at least two pieces of relevant legislation. (3.1)

Q5 - Explain how diversity impacts on the counselling relationship. (3.2)

Q6 - Explain some ways in which you should address difference and diversity as part of counselling skills practice. (3.3)