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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

    Family Psychology

  • Unit Code

    PSY6244

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    10

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Lynn Elaine PRIDDIS

Description

The aim of this unit is for students to develop knowledge of key models of couple and family therapy and skills in couple, parent-child relationship and family assessment and intervention.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from PSY5201, PSY5272, PSY5212

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PSY5183, PSY6272

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of theories and the evidence-base related to applied family psychology.
  2. Demonstrate competence in a range of family assessments and interventions relevant to clinical practice with families.
  3. Demonstrate competence in a range of family assessments and interventions relevant to non-clinical practice with families.

Unit Content

  1. Psychotherapeutic models for working with families including: systems theory; the family life-cycle model, attachment theory and developmental focused models.
  2. Assessment and interventions in the family context to include: parent-infant relationships, families and couples.
  3. Specific issues in family and couple therapy. Examples include, violent families, multicultural families, Australian Aboriginal families.

Learning Experience

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 19 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, case discussion and practice.

Assessment

GS4 GRADING SCHEMA 4 Used for undifferentiated pass/fail 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
TypeDescription
Reflective Practice ^Reflections, reading and participation
AssignmentWritten paper
Case StudyFamily of Origin Case Study

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Monica McGoldrick, N. G.--P., & Carter, B. (2016). The Expanding Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family , and Social Perspectives (5th ed., pp. xxxii, 538). Pearson. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/895731917

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

    Family Psychology

  • Unit Code

    PSY6244

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    10

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Lynn Elaine PRIDDIS

Description

The aim of this unit is for students to develop knowledge of key models of couple and family therapy and skills in couple, parent-child relationship and family assessment and intervention.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from PSY5201, PSY5272, PSY5212

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PSY5183, PSY6272

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of theories and the evidence-base related to applied family psychology.
  2. Demonstrate competence in a range of family assessments and interventions relevant to clinical practice with families.
  3. Demonstrate competence in a range of family assessments and interventions relevant to non-clinical practice with families.

Unit Content

  1. Psychotherapeutic models for working with families including: systems theory; the family life-cycle model, attachment theory and developmental focused models.
  2. Assessment and interventions in the family context to include: parent-infant relationships, families and couples.
  3. Specific issues in family and couple therapy. Examples include, violent families, multicultural families, Australian Aboriginal families.

Learning Experience

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 19 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, case discussion and practice.

Assessment

GS4 GRADING SCHEMA 4 Used for undifferentiated pass/fail 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
TypeDescription
Reflective Practice ^Reflections, reading and participation
AssignmentWritten paper
Case StudyFamily of Origin Case Study

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Monica McGoldrick, N. G.--P., & Carter, B. (2016). The Expanding Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family , and Social Perspectives (5th ed., pp. xxxii, 538). Pearson. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/895731917

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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