WEL3310

Advanced practice skills for human services A

Leah Zaks

8 points
* 3 hours per week
* First semester
* Caulfield
* Prerequisite: WEL2390

Objectives On completion of this subject students can expect to be familiar with a number of therapeutic approaches; have enhanced their understanding of the process of counselling and of therapeutic change; have an increased intellectual and experiential understanding of the role of reflecting teams; have an enhanced proficiency with a range of therapeutic interventions.

Synopsis This subject involves the study of the following topics: reflecting teams; strategic therapies; voice dialogue; construction, deconstruction and narrative therapies; solution focussed therapies; externalising problems; the use of metaphor; empathy; transference; working with the unconscious; resistance and ending.

Assessment Written tutorial report (1500 words) and presentation: 30%
* Written essay set topic (4500 words): 70%

Prescribed texts

Book of prescribed readings published by and available from the section.

Recommended texts

Casement P Learning from the patient Routledge, 1985
Corey G Theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy 3rd edn, Brooks Cole, 1986
Corey G Case approaches to counselling and psychotherapy 2nd edn, Brooks Cole, 1986
Fisch E, Weakland J H and Segal L The tactics of change: Doing therapy briefly Jossey-Bass, 1982
Stone H and Winkleman S Embracing ourselves: The voice dialogue manual California New World Library, 1989
Watzlawick P The language of change: Elements of therapeutic communication Basic Books, 1978
White M and Epston D Literate (narrative) means to therapeutic ends Dulwich Centre Publications, 1989
A more extensive reading list will be provided.