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

    Psychodynamic Theories of Counselling
  • Unit Code

    COU6121
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sonam PELDEN

Description

This unit provides a critical appraisal of the major psychoanalytic approaches to counselling and psychotherapy. It introduces students to very different variants of psychodynamic practice. Each tradition of practice addresses itself to very specific conceptual problems; taking practice in new directions. It is the clinical implications of these variations that is of particular interest.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will undertake clinical practice sessions on predetermined weekends

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU5120

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the main approaches to psychodynamic counselling.
  2. Compare the different psychodynamic counselling approaches.
  3. Evaluatethe assumptions about how change occurs in selectedpsychodynamic counselling approaches.
  4. Summarise the range of therapeutic innovations deriving from the different psychodynamic counselling approaches.
  5. Analyse the main interventions used by the different psychodynamic counselling approaches.

Unit Content

  1. A framework for considering psychodynamic counselling and psychotherapy.
  2. Ego Psychology: central theoretical constructs, practical application in the consulting room and limitations and practical implications.
  3. British Object Relations Theory: central theoretical constructs, practical application in the consulting room and limitations and practical implications.
  4. American Object Relation Theory: central theoretical constructs, practical application in the consulting room and limitations and practical implications.
  5. French Psychoanalysis: central theoretical constructs, practical application in the consulting room and limitations and practical implications.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered6 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Whilst the main thrust of the unit is an academic appraisal of the different theories of counselling, learning will also be experiential through exercises, videos and simulated interviews. Where possible, case material should form the basis of the learning experience. A combined lecturing, seminar and workshop approach is adopted.

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.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationStudents present a group oral and individual written presentation on a particular psychodynamic counselling theorist/ approach. 60%
TestOnline 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

    Psychodynamic Theories of Counselling
  • Unit Code

    COU6121
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sonam PELDEN

Description

This unit provides a critical appraisal of the major psychoanalytic approaches to counselling and psychotherapy. It introduces students to very different variants of psychodynamic practice. Each tradition of practice addresses itself to very specific conceptual problems; taking practice in new directions. It is the clinical implications of these variations that is of particular interest.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will undertake clinical practice sessions on predetermined weekends

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU5120

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the main approaches to psychodynamic counselling.
  2. Compare the different psychodynamic counselling approaches.
  3. Evaluatethe assumptions about how change occurs in selectedpsychodynamic counselling approaches.
  4. Summarise the range of therapeutic innovations deriving from the different psychodynamic counselling approaches.
  5. Analyse the main interventions used by the different psychodynamic counselling approaches.

Unit Content

  1. A framework for considering psychodynamic counselling and psychotherapy.
  2. Ego Psychology: central theoretical constructs, practical application in the consulting room and limitations and practical implications.
  3. British Object Relations Theory: central theoretical constructs, practical application in the consulting room and limitations and practical implications.
  4. American Object Relation Theory: central theoretical constructs, practical application in the consulting room and limitations and practical implications.
  5. French Psychoanalysis: central theoretical constructs, practical application in the consulting room and limitations and practical implications.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered6 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Whilst the main thrust of the unit is an academic appraisal of the different theories of counselling, learning will also be experiential through exercises, videos and simulated interviews. Where possible, case material should form the basis of the learning experience. A combined lecturing, seminar and workshop approach is adopted.

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.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationStudents present a group oral and individual written presentation on a particular psychodynamic counselling theorist/ approach. 60%
TestOnline 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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