Family Therapy Theory and Practice (part 2)/Supervised Clinical Practice
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Objectives
edit- Facilitate your effective clinical practice through ongoing analysis of factors pertaining to your values, interpersonal style and capacities with your work within the therapist-client system, and the refinement of your integration within defined family therapy and associated theoretical frameworks. You will be able to:
- Conduct clinical work with an ongoing consciousness about significant factors relating to your family of origin and your cultural identity
- Identify, in retrospect at least, how family and cultural factors may have facilitated or constrained your flexibility in your practice.
- Apply theoretical concepts to family and cultural factors influencing your practice.
- Appraise each situation as it arises and take steps to address your family and cultural factors to increase your responsiveness and flexibility in clinical practice.
- Assess and formulate effective family interventions by analysing family situations, including your own, using a range of theoretical frameworks, and knowledge pertaining to complex family situations. You will be able to:
- Analyse family situations by using appropriate specialist knowledge pertaining to complex family situations.
- Integrate specialist knowledge with information collected from the family and family therapy theoretical frameworks
- Formulate an effective intervention based on the results of the analysis of a case involving complex family situations.
- Conduct an efficient and effective interactionally based family intervention using a broad range of appropriate family therapy techniques. You will be able to:
- Integrate an interactional focus and relational questioning with other approaches as required by the clients’ unique circumstances.
- Perform executive functions as appropriate within the therapeutic framework being utilised.
- Exercise increased flexibility in terms of role and approach as determined following a careful assessment and appraisal of the needs of the family, your own values, and the available resources.
Assignments
edit- A verbatim analysis of a session (3000 word equiv)
- A group presentation summarising the group's learning in this subject (1000 word equiv)
- A written reflection of learning (2000 word equiv)
- A contact sheet as proof of clinical requirement (200 word equiv)
- A formalised clinical skills assessment feedback session (200 words equiv)
Topics, activities and resources
edit- Experiential exercise for reflection of the impact of family oforigin on clinical work
- Small group discussion about your personal style, values and capacities
- Feedback from small group supervisor and group about the role of your personal style, values and capacities as it influences your clinical work with families.
- Case analyses reflecting on the impact of your personal style, values, and capacities.
- Small group discussion to analyse family situations and plan for interventions including the application of various theoretical frameworks prior to and following live work with families.
- Case analyses of work with families seen in live work and in your own work context.
- Live supervised work with families from The Bouverie Centre in the context of a small group of no more than 6 students using a reflecting team format.
- Immediate feedback from the supervisor and team following your sessions with families
- Role play to experiment with different styles and approaches with families and with the group.