Postgraduate - UnitMCP5005 - Child psychotherapy 5 year 3

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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8 points, SCA Band 3, 0.1666667 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	School of Psychological Sciences
Offered	Clayton First semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Mrs Jeanette Beaufoy

Synopsis

Seminars include psychoanalytic theories and psychopathology including the work of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion. Clinical and Research seminars continue. Clinical Supervision: individual psychotherapy supervision, 2 hours per week. Parent Therapy Supervision, 1 hour per week.

Outcomes

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

Continue in seminars an exploration of the fundamental psychoanalytic and developmental theories.
Explore the application of these theories to various aspects of clinical work both in seminars and clinical supervision.
Examine the psychodynamic functioning of groups and organisations; To examine research and thesis writing as relevant to the area.
Undertake psychotherapy with patients viz. children, adolescents and parents and to present this work to the clinical supervisors; to be able to demonstrate competence with the various techniques in the work.

Assessment

Trainees' performance on seminars
Written report submitted by clinical supervisors for each trainee detailing progress made
An integration of the various aspects of the unit are to be demonstrated in the students' clinical work

Chief examiner(s)

Mrs Jeanette Beaufoy

Prerequisites

MCP5001 (MCP0001), MCP5002 (MCP0002), MCP5003 (MCP0003) and MCP5004 (MCP0004).