Postgraduate - UnitCPS5008 - Principles of working with parents

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 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 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	School of Psychological Sciences
Offered	Clayton Second semester 2015 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Ms Nada Lane

Synopsis

This unit will examine an understanding of the role of parents in their child's development and different ways of working with parents from a psychodynamic and developmental perspective. Consideration will be made of the following ways of working with parents and the similarities and difference in the models: parent therapy; parent and child work combined; short-term and crisis work with parents; parent counselling; parent education; marital therapy/counselling; individual therapy/counselling.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

understand theoretical and clinical concepts of working with parents;
have an understanding of the importance of parents' own development as it may affect their role as parents;
explore possible ways of working with parents as relevant to their particular needs and those of their child/children; and
understand the difficulties that may be experienced by the therapist when working with parents.

Assessment

Written assignment 1 (15%)
Written assignment 2 (25%)
Essay (40%)
On-campus workshop / Alternative assessment (20%)

All assessments must be passed to pass the unit.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Jennifer Re

Off-campus attendance requirements

Two day on-campus workshop.

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

Psychology