WS5101 - Family Therapy
| Credit points: | 06 |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | School of Arts and Social Sciences (pre 2015) |
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.
Learning Outcomes
- 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;
- understand interactions between people as systemic;
- understand issues or problems as contracts between parties;
- On completion of this subject students will: articulate interventions from at least three theoretical family therapy perspectives.
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Limited, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 27-Mar-2014 | |
| Face to face teaching 12-Apr-2014 to 13-Apr-2014 (2 day on campus workshop) | |
| Lecturer: | Ms Ines Zuchowski. |
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| Assessment: | case study (50%); essays (50%). |
Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.