Modules

Systemic Practice (Intermediate) Over the year you’ll develop your understanding of how to engage families, couples and individuals in systemic therapeutic work and you’ll develop therapeutic skills with families, couples and individuals and apply systemic theory and practice in your work contexts. Themes are followed each term with an initial focus on the key skills of engaging families, making sense of problems and producing therapeutic change. The second term considers issues relating to ethics, power and difference and further study of the theory of systemic practice and related skills. The final term considers the application of systemic theory and practice in a range of health and social care settings and your own therapeutic practice. Throughout the course you will be encouraged to develop a commitment to actively promote ethical, anti-discriminatory practice and to highlight and critique culturally-based assumptions in your practice. The course runs on approximately 18 Wednesday evenings (5pm to 8.30pm) in November – October, plus up to three full days. We aim to deliver the teaching on the University main campus although some elements may be taught online depending on social distancing guidance at the time of teaching. Systemic Practice (Foundation) The course will introduce you to: the basic theory and concepts of systemic family practice theories of change and "schools" of systemic practice, from structural and Milan through to post-Milan constructionist and narrative approaches family life cycles, developmental tasks and inter-generational patterns approaches to systemic practice in different settings and with different client groups. The course will also provide opportunities for you to examine your own personal and professional contexts from a systemic perspective and to acquire basic systemic practice skills. You will demonstrate through role play, a range of systemic skills such as genogram construction, circular questions and offering reframes or alternative perspectives. On successful completion of this course you should be able to describe a range of systemic approaches to family and other relationships and give examples of their application, particularly in your own areas of work. You will be able to take a critical stance to systemic ideas and their value, and place systemic therapy in a historical context. You will be able to use systemic ideas to promote anti-discriminatory practice and demonstrate an awareness of the impact of wider social context, with particular reference to race, gender and disability. The course runs on approximately 18 Wednesday evenings (5pm to 8.30pm) in November – October, plus up to three full days. We aim to deliver the teaching on the University main campus although some elements may be taught online depending on social distancing guidance at the time of teaching.

Assessment method

Systemic Practice (Intermediate) We monitor your progress through attendance, participation in lectures, and performance within small group tutorials in which formative feedback is provided by your tutor. Progress is also monitored in feedback on written assignments and the learning portfolio, as well as on your progress in recording at least 60 hours of systemic practice during the course period. Systemic Practice (Foundation) We monitor your progress through attendance, participation in lectures and tutorials, feedback on written assignments, a group presentation on an area of interest and a reflective learning journal completed during the year of the course. The two written assignments focus on summatively assessing all learning outcomes relating to theoretical knowledge and application to your practice. The group presentation and reflective learning journal in which you discuss and critique your personal and professional development and skills will receive formative feedback..

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Family Therapy, Association for