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Systematic Approach in Counselling
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:26.08.2020 10:23:12
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VPUPK_181 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Psychology; General Psychology | Target Audience: | Psychology | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Jeļena Koļesņikova | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 5 J. Asara Street, vppk rsu[pnkts]lv, +37167061587 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Developmental psychology, Personality psychology, Family psychology, Differential psychology, Psychological counselling, Group counselling and psychotherapy. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To introduce postgraduate students to the main principles and theories of systemic psychotherapy, to develop the understanding of the use of systemic principles in the work of the psychologist, to develop skills to use the principles of systemic counselling in work with the individual, the couple and the family. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Systemic psychotherapy and its main principles. Biopsychosocial approach. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Group and family as a system. Family forms, family development – life cycles, subsystems in the family. Functional and dysfunctional family. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Systematic evaluation of a family, couple and individual. Counselling phases. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | A family genogram. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Theoretical models of systemic psychotherapy in practice. | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Interventions in systemic counselling. Systemic issues, family photography, family sculpture, family rituals. | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Reading of the given literature and sources, creating a presentation on one of the theoretical approaches in systemic counselling and psychotherapy and presenting it in a group. Collecting information and creating a genogram of own family. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Active participation in lectures and classes (30%). A presentation of a theoretical model of systemic counselling (40%). A written analysis and presentation of one genogram (30%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students describe differences between individual and systemic approach in counselling, they describe the main principles of the systemic approach, the main theories and key concepts. They describe the main interventions of the systemic approach in counselling. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students find patterns at family genograms. They demonstrate the systemic interventions – ask systemic questions, develop family sculpture during seminars in training situations. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students evaluate the resources of family system functioning and the needs of the family system. They distinguish between a functional and dysfunctional family, give recommendations of how to improve the functioning of the system. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Goldenberg, H., & Goldenberg, I. (2013). Family therapy: An Overview (8th ed.). Belmont: Brooks Cole, Cengage Learning. | ||||||||
| 2 | Krause, I.B. (2012). Culture and Reflexivity in Systemic Psychotherapy : Mutual Perspectives. London: Routledge. | ||||||||
| 3 | Metcalf, L.(Ed.). (2011). Marriage and Family Therapy. A Practice – Orienter Approach. New York: Springer Publishing Company, LLC. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Asen, E., Tomson, D., Tomson, P., &Young, V. (2004). Ten minutes to the family. Systemic interventions inprimary care, London. Routledge. | ||||||||
| 2 | Corey, G. (2009). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy. (8th ed.). Australia, Thomson Brooks/Cole. | ||||||||
| 3 | White, J. M. (2005). Advancing Family Theories. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, Inc. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Journal of Systemic Therapies | ||||||||
| 2 | Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy | ||||||||
| 3 | Journal of Family Psychotherapy | ||||||||
