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 |
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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
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 |