To qualify for the Master of Family and Systemic Therapy, a student must complete 120 cp from the Schedule of Unit Offerings comprising of:
(1) 80 cp Specified Core Units; and
(2) 40 cp Supervision Units.
Graduate Certificate in Family and Systemic Therapy
Year 1 Semester 1
Concepts and Models of Family and Systemic Therapy 1
Core unit - 10 cp
- Models of Family and Systemic Therapy: focus of intervention and change mechanisms
- Family lifecycle, structure, and communication in the system
- Trauma and disruption in relational systems
Practices and Processes of Family and Systemic Therapy 1
Core unit - 10 cp
- Family of origin, and exploring the impact of birth order, family structure, and family rules
- Exploring multigenerational themes of family history
- Seeing and experiencing the relational spaces in family systems
- Secrets, alliances, and coalitions
- Family and systemic treatment planning
Year 1 Semester 2
Concepts and Models of Family and Systemic Therapy 2
Core unit - 10 cp
- Couple formation and consequent
- Family adaptation and functioning
- Problems presenting through children and adolescents
- Trans-generational transmission of trauma: Recent developments in research, theory and practice
Practices and Processes of Family and Systemic Therapy 2
Core unit - 10 cp
- Exploring the family's ethics, moral and cultural values, and spirituality, as core family resources
- Exploring intimacy, emotional connection, emotional expression and emotional literacy
- Session assessment skills
Graduate Diploma in Family and Systemic Therapy
Year 2 Semester 1
Research Informed Frameworks of Family and Systemic Therapy 1
Core unit - 10 cp
Evidence-based models of FST for the treatment of:
- Complex problems of adolescence, including adolescent depression and suicide, school participation and performance, and juvenile justice.
- Mental illness in children, adolescents and adults
- Drug, alcohol and other addictions
Live Supervision and Reflecting Team Practice 1
Supervision unit – 10 cp
Team reflection and self-reflection on live couples practice:
- Providing generative feedback to clients and colleagues
- Applying feedback and outcome measures
- Monitoring micro and macro changes
- Recognition of the differences between straightforward and complex client systems
Year 2 Semester 2
Research Informed Frameworks of Family and Systemic Therapy 2
Core unit - 10 cp
Models of FST for the treatment of:
- Physical, emotional and sexual abuse
- Straightforward and complex couple’s issues
- Traumatized and traumatizing relational systems, including emotional dysregulation and PTSD
Live Supervision and Reflecting Team Practice 2
Supervision unit – 10 cp
Advanced principles and practice of team reflection and self-reflection and open dialogue:
- Focused generative feedback to clients and colleagues
- Applying feedback and outcome measures, monitoring micro and macro changes
- Being effective in clinical work with complex client systems
Master of Family and Systemic Therapy
Year 3 Semester 1
Systemic Attachment Processes and Neuroscience
Core unit - 10 cp
Attachment as a Relational and Systemic Process:
- Theory, systemic conceptualisation, mentalisation processes
- Neuroscience and relational systems: attachments and emotional bonds in families
- Fear and danger in families, and the defence cascade
Advanced Live Supervision and Clinical Teamwork 1
Supervision unit – 10 cp
- Supervision of complex family systems in real-time or with participants' own recorded session, and a reflecting team
- Clinical application of case-based research practices: teamwork and the balanced alliance, refining the quality of your practice
Year 3 Semester 2
Transgenerational Loss, Trauma and Mental Health in Relational Systems
Core unit - 10 cp
Families surviving and adapting to complex losses:
- Cascading loss and complex trauma in the family system
- Divorce, grief death of a child, high conflict families
- Systemic treatment of trauma and grief in children
Advanced Live Supervision and Clinical Teamwork 2
Supervision unit – 10 cp
- Supervision of complex work in real-time or with participants' own recorded session, and a reflecting team.
- Clinical application of case-based research practices: learning how to refine the quality of personal practice, identifying patterns of micro-change and macro-changes
- First and second order changes in relational systems