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WS5101:06

Family Therapy

Townsville

HECS Band 1

Semester 1 Limited Attendance.

Staff:

Ms D Miles,

Ms G Galloway.

This subject introduces postgraduate students to the specialised area of family therapy. Family therapy shifts thinking away from linear, pathological definitions of problems and linear interventions to systemic assessment and intervention practices. Students will be introduced to four primary schools of therapy: structural family therapy; strategic family therapy; Milan family therapy (1 and 2) and narrative therapy. Students will be expected to apply lecture and text material to case studies.

Learning Objectives:

understand interactions between people as systemic;

understand issues or problems as contracts between parties;

engage and articulate at least one systemic assessment;

understand and engage interventions which account for more than one actor in the life of a problem or psycho-therapeutic issue;

articulate interventions from at least three theoretical family therapy perspectives.

Assessment by assignments (50%); presentations (50%).