309529 (v.1) Psychology 704 - Individual Psychotherapy

Area:	School of Psychology
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Seminar:	1 x 4 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	This unit focuses on theoretical understanding and clinical skills at an advanced and applied level. It provides exposure to some of the major theoretical systems, including interpersonal process psychotherapy, existential therapy, cognitive behavioural therapies and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Each student will choose one system (or an integrated system) and, under supervision, extensively develop their theoretical understanding and clinical skills by the end of the program. All students are expected to obtain competency in multimodal assessment and interpersonal process skills. The class work will involve role-playing and working with clients, video taping, viewing of films and tapes, and didactic input. Self disclosure is expected as a part of this course. This unit will be conducted in accordance with the Australian Psychological Society (APS) 'Code of Professional Conduct'. This unit has been developed for students admitted to the Doctor of Philosophy (Counselling Psychology).
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	090701 Psychology
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2008	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