Postgraduate - UnitEDF6501 - Psychotherapies: Theory and practice

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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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Education
Offered	Clayton First semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Janette Simmonds

Synopsis

In this unit, core research-based psychotherapies and psychological counselling skills are studied and practised. Topics include various current psychotherapies, models of psychotherapeutic helping, advanced skills, issues in evaluating evidence and outcome, assumptions and issues underlying research paradigms in counselling psychology, psychopharmacology, diversity-sensitive psychotherapy.

Outcomes

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

demonstrate knowledge and application of various psychotherapies and relevant psychological counselling microskills and integrate them to conduct effective sessions
describe and apply sound practice principles concerning the therapeutic relationship, setting, record keeping and varied interventions.

Assessment

Clinical development essay and journal (5000 words equivalent, 55%)
Transcript and annotation of counselling session (3000 words equivalent, 45%)

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 24 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

3 contact hours per week

(b.) Contact hours for off-campus students:

compulsory one-week residential school

(c.) Additional requirements (all students):

independent study to make up the minimum required hours per week

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Janette Simmonds

Prerequisites

Successful completion of an Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) accredited four-year sequence in psychology