FAMILY THERAPY WORK SKILLS A
FTH4WSA
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
In this subject students will learn basic skills in engaging productively with families towards the achievement of mutually agreed upon goals. They will learn how to apply skills from foundational family therapy models as appropriate to their work context and to various family presentations. They will integrate these skills with increased awareness of and management of self/worker as situated in their family of origin, culture and profession.
School: School of Psychology & Public Health
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Colleen Cousins
Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG
Exchange Students: Yes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: N/A
Co-requisites: FTH4IFA. Students must be enrolled in HCFT Graduate Certificate in Family Therapy.
Incompatible subjects: N/A
Equivalent subjects: FTH40FWS
Special conditions: N/A
Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes
01. Demonstrate their understanding and skill at engaging effectively with more than one person in the room at the same time. This will involve at least some of the following: (a) describing their role to families; (b) constructing a genogram with client individuals or families; (c) developing a shared understanding of an issue to be worked on in a therapeutic, case management or other relevant context; (d) demonstrating empathy for each family member; (e) assisting family members to engage productively with each of their different perspectives.
- Activities:
- Seminar discussion, role-play, reading material, journalling.
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
- Teamwork(Teamwork)
- Communication(Communication)
- Ethical/ Social Responsibility(Ethical/ Social Responsibility)
- Professional Practice(Professional Practice)
- Discipline Specific Competencies(Discipline Specific Competencies)
02. Demonstrate their capacity to provide a respectful and culturally sensitive context for famliy work.
- Activities:
- Seminar and small group discussion, role-play.
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Ethical/ Social Responsibility(Ethical/ Social Responsibility)
- Teamwork(Teamwork)
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
- Discipline Specific Competencies(Discipline Specific Competencies)
- Communication(Communication)
- Professional Practice(Professional Practice)
03. Identify their own cultural identity (broadly defined) and assess how this might impact on their work with families, particularly families and individuals from other cultures, embedded in a beginning understanding of the worker's use of self.
- Activities:
- Lecturing, seminar discussion, class presentation, reading material, journalling.
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Discipline Specific Competencies(Discipline Specific Competencies)
- Teamwork(Teamwork)
- Communication(Communication)
- Ethical/ Social Responsibility(Ethical/ Social Responsibility)
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
- Speaking(Speaking)
- Professional Practice(Professional Practice)
04. Demonstrate knowledge of, and capacity to, apply within their practice at least one interviewing technique or concept related to the following major family therapy models: Transgenerational, Structural, Strategic, Milan Systemic.
- Activities:
- Lecturing, DVD observation, reading material, role-play, journalling.
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Discipline Specific Competencies(Discipline Specific Competencies)
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
- Communication(Communication)
- Ethical/ Social Responsibility(Ethical/ Social Responsibility)
- Professional Practice(Professional Practice)
- Teamwork(Teamwork)