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COUN616 Relationship and Family Counselling
10 cp
Prerequisites COUN621 Foundations of Counselling or equivalent experience
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent of lectures, workshops, practicals and seminars.
Building on skills and theory developed in previous studies, this unit aims to inform students about current theory and practice in the area of relationship counselling and family therapy. It recognises the place of marriage as a social institution and its importance to family, aims to review a range of contemporary issues relevant to marriage and relationships, and to provide training in particular interventions. It will cover such issues as theoretical models of committed relationships, complexities of family cultural differences and the management of those differences, the fit between contemporary world factors and couples’ defences, marriage breakdown mediation and conflict resolution, improving communications in marriage, relationship enhancement, and development of proactive interventions to support marriage.
