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Module Specifications
Archived Version 2014 - 2015
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Description In this module the student will intiialy explore systemic, constructivist and social constructionist theory and practice in the field of psychotherapy. The module will also examine the central tenets of different models of systemic therapy. A wide range of therapeutic approaches and methods from within the systemic perspective will be explored together with the meaning and place of reflexivity in systemic psychotherapy practice.How language is embedded within social, political and cultural contexts is examined and personal and social constructions of self and identity are also explored. The module will also explore ethical practice from a systemic / social constructionist perspective. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Critically explore systemic, constructivist and social constructionist theory and their application to the psychotherapeutic endeavor 2. Distinguish between the main models of systemic psychotherapy 3. Compare and contrast structural, strategic and brief therapies with Milan and Post-Milan systemic therapy 4. Explore the notion of production of selfhood as discursive 5. Examine the concept of knowledge as socially constructed 6. Explore the place of language, narrative, story–telling, metaphor, writing and art as modes of psychotherapy practice. 7. Examine meaning-making in family and social contexts. 8. To reflect on the affordances and constraints that social discourses have in the construction of personal identity. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and
Learning Activities To explore systemic theory and practice with particular reference to brief, strategic and structural approachesTo review the notion that attempted solutions become problems in family systemsTo critically discuss how power positioning is central to structural family therapyTo critically discuss the feminist perspectives to discourses of power and neutrality, explicit and implicit within the therapeutic endeavor and how this discourse is embedded in the social domainDiscuss the importance of 2nd order cybernetics to the development of systemic family therapy and the development of a way of including the psychotherapist as part of the therapeutic systemic meaningTo explore systemic theory and practice with particular reference to Milan and Post-Milan modelsExplore case formulationExplore the therapist positioning of neutrality, curiosity, irreverence, prejudice and not-knowingExplore the resonances of the reflecting team in terms of introducing ‘news of difference’To personally critique and reflect on the implications of self as constructed through the language of familial, and social discourses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Indicative Reading List
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Other Resources None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Programme or List of Programmes |
GDCOU | Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy |
MCOU | Masters in Psychotherapy |
NSPD | PhD |
NSPM | MSc |
NSPT | PhD-track |
SMPN | Single Module Programme (Nursing) |
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