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

    Contemporary Challenges in Therapeutic Practice
  • Unit Code

    COU3201
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Maria Madalena GROBBELAAR

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.

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 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot 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

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTheoretical analysis, synthesis and application60%
TestEnd of Semester Test40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTheoretical analysis, synthesis and application60%
TestEnd of Semester Test40%

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

    Contemporary Challenges in Therapeutic Practice
  • Unit Code

    COU3201
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Maria Madalena GROBBELAAR

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.

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 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot 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

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTheoretical analysis, synthesis and application60%
TestEnd of Semester Test40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTheoretical analysis, synthesis and application60%
TestEnd of Semester Test40%

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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