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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Therapeutic Practice with Families and Couples
  • Unit Code

    COU1201
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sonam PELDEN

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's LMS

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS 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 School Progression Panel.

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Therapeutic Practice with Families and Couples
  • Unit Code

    COU1201
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sonam PELDEN

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's LMS

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS 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 School Progression Panel.

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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