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Psychotherapy Essentials (NURS90141)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Term 4
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
Availability | Term 4 - Online |
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Psychotherapy Essentials is designed to strengthen students’ mental health practice and complement existing clinical skills. This online subject incorporates consumer scholarship, psychodynamic concepts and introduces students to the common factors across psychotherapies from humanistic traditions. Psychotherapy Essentials equips students with a comprehensive, coherent and contemporary set of psychotherapy skills to support consumers personal recovery journeys. These skills are explored through topics integral to contemporary mental health, such as: trauma-informed care, recovery-alliance, attachment and neuroplasticity.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject students will:
- Demonstrate a foundational understanding of psychodynamically-informed psychotherapy including origins and current directions
- Understand trust in relationship, knowledge of self, and connection to people, as three core domains of psychotherapeutic engagement
- Develop capabilities inherent in forming trust, knowledge of the self, and connection
- Implement mental health care informed by psychotherapeutic practice, neuroplasticity, psychological trauma, and recovery alliance
- Demonstrate a capacity to practice psychotherapeutically at a beginning level
- Identify the common factors across psychotherapies and their role in optimising recovery
- Critically reflect on their own psychotherapeutic practice and provide constructive evidence-based feedback to peers on their practice
- Use psychotherapeutic theory and practice to develop a meaningful formulation
Generic skills
- Critically reflect on their own psychotherapeutic practice of relating and connecting with people
- Provide constructive evidence-based feedback to peers on their practice
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Psychotherapeutic podcast including reflective practice and peer review (10 minutes)
| Week 3 | 20% |
Psychotherapeutic podcast including process recording 10 minutes)
| Week 6 | 30% |
Psychotherapy reading journal entries to record and reflect on therapeutic approaches
| Week 8 | 20% |
Psychotherapeutic Formulation
| Week 9 | 30% |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Term 4 - Online
Coordinators Cathy Daniel and Liz Currie Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Total time commitment 140 hours Pre teaching start date 5 October 2020 Pre teaching requirements Students will familiarise themselves with the online platform which will provide an overview of the subject, assessment requirements and expected activities and behaviours. They will also be provided with information about studying online and informed about the University resources available to them. Teaching period 12 October 2020 to 6 December 2020 Last self-enrol date 6 October 2020 Census date 30 October 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 November 2020 Assessment period ends 13 December 2020 Term 4 contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
No prescribed text for this subject
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022