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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

309520 (v.1) Psychology 702 - Psychotherapy

Area: School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 12526 (v.2) Psychology Professional Practice (Clinical) 695 or any previous version
OR
309513 (v.1) Psychology 795 - Preparation for Professional Clinical Practice or any previous version
Syllabus: Provides an opportunity for participants to develop all aspects of their competence as psychological therapists. The unit has three main components: a theoretical component in which core principles of the psychotherapy process are introduced and discussed and in which research on the components of effective therapy is reviewed; skills development component in which the application of psychotherapy processes are modelled, criticised and rehearsed; and a supervision component in which videotapes of participants' psychotherapy sessions are reviewed.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 090701 Psychology
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External