fth4fws family work skills

FAMILY WORK SKILLS

FTH4FWS

2014

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

This is a practical subject delivered in block teaching over five days, face-to-face at The Bouverie Centre or other location as negotiated. In this subject you will learn some basic, useful, family therapy theoretical concepts but the emphasis will be on acquiring skill in interviewing families, ie. more than one person and more than one generation at the same time. You will acquire skill in deciding who to include in sessions and then how to collaborate with the family to develop a focus for the work. Experiential methods, especially role-play, will be used to teach specific techniques for managing family interactions; especially promoting a sense of safety and respectful engagement with the therapist, and with each other, and also managing difference and conflict. Attention will be paid to cultural and other forms of diversity.

FacultyFaculty of Health Sciences

Credit points15

Subject Co-ordinatorColleen Cousins

Available to Study Abroad StudentsNo

Subject year levelYear Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG

Exchange StudentsNo

Subject particulars

Subject rules

PrerequisitesN/A

Co-requisitesN/A

Incompatible subjectsN/A

Equivalent subjectsN/A

Special conditionsN/A

Learning resources

Readings

Resource Type	Title	Resource Requirement	Author and Year	Publisher
Readings	'All those people in the room!' Getting started with families Couple, family and group work: First steps to interpersonal intervention, pp 131-150.	Recommended	Crago, H 2006	OUP, MAIDENHEAD, BERKSHIRE.
Readings	Family-of-origin sessions: why, when and how. In Rhodes, P & Wallis, A (eds) A practical guide to family therapy: structured guidelines and key skills, pp 212-232.	Recommended	Crago, H 2011	IP COMMUNICATIONS, MELBOURNE.
Readings	Hosting family members. In Family therapy: a constructive framework, pp 33-53.	Recommended	Lowe, R 2004	SAGE, LONDON.
Readings	The evolution of circular questions: training family therapists. In Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Vol 12, No 2, pp 113-127.	Recommended	Nelson, T, Fleuridas, C, & Rosenthal, D 1986	N/A

Subject options

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Other Site 2, 2014, Semester 1, Day

Overview

Online enrolmentNo

Maximum enrolment sizeN/A

Enrolment information

Subject Instance Co-ordinatorColleen Cousins

Class requirements

Collaborative Based Learning
One 35.0 hours collaborative based learning per study period and delivered via face-to-face.
"Seminars and Enquiry Based Learning classes in one block equivalent to 35 hours"

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	%
One 10-minute group video presentation.		25
One 2,000-word reflection on role-play.		25
Practice journal (equiv to 2,000 words).		25
Supervised role-play (equiv to 500 words).		25

Other Site 2, 2014, Semester 2, Day