units

AZA3360

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 22 December 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Arts
OfferedSouth Africa Second semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)Mr M Ntantiso

Synopsis

The unit exposes students to a comparative analysis of various counselling and psychotherapy systems by introducing them to a number of the older and newer models of psychotherapy within the contexts of the psychological theories that inform them. Learners will encounter concepts pertaining to the basic change processes that underlie contemporary systems of psychotherapy, as well as a means to compare and evaluate their relative efficacies in offering treatments to specific clients/patients with specific presenting problems. The unit aims to equip the student with the ability to discuss a trans-theoretical analysis of various psychotherapy systems.

Outcomes

On completion of the unit, the students will be able to:

  1. Relate their knowledge of personality and human development to counselling and psychotherapy.
  2. Contrast historical and current major theoretical perspectives within counselling and psychotherapy.
  3. Appraise the influence of theoretical perspectives on counselling and psychotherapeutic interventions.
  4. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the major counselling and therapeutic approaches.

Assessment

Lecture topic quizzes: 10%
Class participation assignments: 10%
Critical thinking exercises: 30%
Examination: 50%

Chief examiner(s)

Mr M Ntantiso

Workload requirements

2 hours lecture contact for 12 weeks
2 hours tutorials contact for 10 weeks
8 hours for private study, including reading of prescribed and recommended literature, review of and familiarisation with a wider range of publications on the core content topics of the unit, work on assignments, preparation for class discussions and presentations.

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Psychology

Prerequisites

AZA1019, AZA1020, AZA2460, AZA2455, AZA2490, AZA2495

Co-requisites

AZA3465, AZA3462, AZA3135