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

    Contemporary Challenges in Therapeutic Practice
  • Unit Code

    COU3201
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit provides an opportunity for students to be exposed to some of the contemporary issues in therapeutic practice, particularly within the context of interpersonal violence. It will encourage students to question some of the core values and traditional frameworks for therapeutic practice and evaluate their relevance and applicability to a range of interrelated contemporary issues, such as interpersonal violence, trauma and substance misuse. Interpersonal violence has been identified as a public health problem with consequences to individuals and communities.The unit will call on the expertise and research experience of staff and psychologists in the field to assist in presenting and discussing relevant issues.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded TPR3101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply current knowledge in a diversity of areas relevant to therapeutic practice.
  2. Critically reflect/evaluate issues surrounding the defined therapeutic issues.
  3. Discuss the core values and traditional frameworks of therapeutic practice.
  4. Evaluate a range of contemporary issues affecting the therapeutic process.
  5. Examine traditional therapy frameworks in terms of a range of issues relevant to individual functioning.

Unit Content

  1. Contemporary issues of therapeutic practice in relation to violence, trauma, gender, race, substance misuse, and therapist self-care.
  2. Innovative applications in working with victims and offenders with complex and comorbid presentations.
  3. Traditional frameworks of therapeutic practice informed by attachment and feminist based perspectives.
  4. Traditional therapy frameworks and their relation to individual function.

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will involve presentation of material through lectures, supported by the use of audio and visual materials. Students will also engage in small group discussions and exercises.

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
AssignmentTheoretical analysis, synthesis and application50%
ExaminationFinal Examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTheoretical analysis, synthesis and application50%
ExaminationFinal Examination50%

Text References

  • Sanderson, C. (2008). Counselling survivors of domestic abuse. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
  • Walker, L. (2009). The battered woman syndrome (3rd ed.). New York: Springer.
  • Dutton, D. (2007). The abusive personality: Violence and control in intimate relationships. New York: The Guildford Press.

Journal References

  • Journal of Family Violence
  • Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence

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

    Contemporary Challenges in Therapeutic Practice
  • Unit Code

    COU3201
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit provides an opportunity for students to be exposed to some of the contemporary issues in therapeutic practice, particularly within the context of interpersonal violence. It will encourage students to question some of the core values and traditional frameworks for therapeutic practice and evaluate their relevance and applicability to a range of interrelated contemporary issues, such as interpersonal violence, trauma and substance misuse. Interpersonal violence has been identified as a public health problem with consequences to individuals and communities.The unit will call on the expertise and research experience of staff and psychologists in the field to assist in presenting and discussing relevant issues.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded TPR3101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply current knowledge in a diversity of areas relevant to therapeutic practice.
  2. Critically reflect/evaluate issues surrounding the defined therapeutic issues.
  3. Discuss the core values and traditional frameworks of therapeutic practice.
  4. Evaluate a range of contemporary issues affecting the therapeutic process.
  5. Examine traditional therapy frameworks in terms of a range of issues relevant to individual functioning.

Unit Content

  1. Contemporary issues of therapeutic practice in relation to violence, trauma, gender, race, substance misuse, and therapist self-care.
  2. Innovative applications in working with victims and offenders with complex and comorbid presentations.
  3. Traditional frameworks of therapeutic practice informed by attachment and feminist based perspectives.
  4. Traditional therapy frameworks and their relation to individual function.

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will involve presentation of material through lectures, supported by the use of audio and visual materials. Students will also engage in small group discussions and exercises.

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
AssignmentTheoretical analysis, synthesis and application50%
ExaminationFinal Examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTheoretical analysis, synthesis and application50%
ExaminationFinal Examination50%

Text References

  • Sanderson, C. (2008). Counselling survivors of domestic abuse. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
  • Walker, L. (2009). The battered woman syndrome (3rd ed.). New York: Springer.
  • Dutton, D. (2007). The abusive personality: Violence and control in intimate relationships. New York: The Guildford Press.

Journal References

  • Journal of Family Violence
  • Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence

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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