School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Therapeutic Practice with Families and Couples
  • Unit Code

    COU1201
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Karen Elizabeth DARE

Description

This unit introduces students to aspects of working therapeutically with families. It will provide a framework for understanding theory and practice models for working with families. The major therapeutic approaches, including structuralist and post-modern frameworks, are covered.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded TPR1101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and critically evaluate the various approaches to family therapy.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the theoretical frameworks relating to issues of family formation and maintenance of homeostasis and resilience.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of family systems theory, interpersonal relationships, family life cycle theory, and family stresses and coping models.
  4. Develop competency in ethical practice with families.
  5. Understand and begin to use the skills required for assessing family functioning.
  6. Understand the application of major approaches to therapeutic practice with families including psychodynamic, behavioural, humanistic, strategic and narrative practices.

Unit Content

  1. An overview of family therapy models including experiential psychoanalytic, cross-generational, structural, and narrative therapies.
  2. Basic therapeutic skills in working with families, including group and individual work, engaging with parents and children, determining the approach to use, setting therapeutic goals and determining outcomes.
  3. Ethical issues and family therapy.
  4. Issues and skills in assessing family functioning.
  5. The role of culture, gender, age diversity, and family configuration in family functioning.
  6. Theoretical frameworks for working with families: systems, ecology, attachment theories, narrative theories, existential theories.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1 x 3 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials and seminars.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentReport40%
ParticipationOn campus attendance and participation 10%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentReport40%
ParticipationDiscussion Board Contribution10%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Therapeutic Practice with Families and Couples
  • Unit Code

    COU1201
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Karen Elizabeth DARE

Description

This unit introduces students to aspects of working therapeutically with families. It will provide a framework for understanding theory and practice models for working with families. The major therapeutic approaches, including structuralist and post-modern frameworks, are covered.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded TPR1101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and critically evaluate the various approaches to family therapy.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the theoretical frameworks relating to issues of family formation and maintenance of homeostasis and resilience.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of family systems theory, interpersonal relationships, family life cycle theory, and family stresses and coping models.
  4. Develop competency in ethical practice with families.
  5. Understand and begin to use the skills required for assessing family functioning.
  6. Understand the application of major approaches to therapeutic practice with families including psychodynamic, behavioural, humanistic, strategic and narrative practices.

Unit Content

  1. An overview of family therapy models including experiential psychoanalytic, cross-generational, structural, and narrative therapies.
  2. Basic therapeutic skills in working with families, including group and individual work, engaging with parents and children, determining the approach to use, setting therapeutic goals and determining outcomes.
  3. Ethical issues and family therapy.
  4. Issues and skills in assessing family functioning.
  5. The role of culture, gender, age diversity, and family configuration in family functioning.
  6. Theoretical frameworks for working with families: systems, ecology, attachment theories, narrative theories, existential theories.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1 x 3 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials and seminars.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentReport40%
ParticipationOn campus attendance and participation 10%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentReport40%
ParticipationDiscussion Board Contribution10%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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