School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Principles of Psychodynamic Practice
  • Unit Code

    COU6113
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Elizabeth Jane IZETT

Description

This unit concerns the theory of psychodynamic counselling technique. Learning focusses on the method and rationale for psychodynamic consulting room practice. Students are introduced to a range of core clinical competencies: clinical observation, fostering the working alliance, accurately tracking the clients communications, psychoanalytic forms of listening, psychodynamic formulation, psychodiagnostics and the like. Multiple opportunities to learn the practical skills of individual psychodynamic counselling are provided.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU5110

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe and evaluate the psychodynamic counselling model.
  2. Execute at an advanced level, the skills of the different stages of the counselling process.
  3. Review their own values, attitudes, and interpersonal skills as these influence their role as a counsellor.
  4. Appraise the basic theoretical and ethical frameworks for counselling.
  5. Summarise and critique the research literature on counselling interventions.
  6. Execute the skills of case management.

Unit Content

  1. The philosophy of psychodynamic counselling.
  2. Establishing the therapeutic frame and working alliance - ethics, the setting and contracting.
  3. Clinical skills - observation, active/psychodynamic forms of listening and case management.
  4. The first appointment - history taking, mental status examination, assessment of suitability for treatment.
  5. Working with Psychotherapy process - transfererence, countertransference etc.
  6. Integrating clinical skills and complex psychodynamic concepts within the counsellor role.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

This is essentially a skill development unit which will utilise: modelling, practice, role-play, video replay and case presentation.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentApply concepts to a clinical case50%
ExaminationFormulate a individual psychotherapy clinical case50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Frederickson, Jon. (2013). Psychodynamic Psychotherapy : Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/862610036
  • Howard, S. (2017). Skills in psychodynamic counselling & psychotherapy (Second edition.). Los Angeles: SAGE. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/957533413

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Principles of Psychodynamic Practice
  • Unit Code

    COU6113
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Elizabeth Jane IZETT

Description

This unit concerns the theory of psychodynamic counselling technique. Learning focusses on the method and rationale for psychodynamic consulting room practice. Students are introduced to a range of core clinical competencies: clinical observation, fostering the working alliance, accurately tracking the clients communications, psychoanalytic forms of listening, psychodynamic formulation, psychodiagnostics and the like. Multiple opportunities to learn the practical skills of individual psychodynamic counselling are provided.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU5110

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe and evaluate the psychodynamic counselling model.
  2. Execute at an advanced level, the skills of the different stages of the counselling process.
  3. Review their own values, attitudes, and interpersonal skills as these influence their role as a counsellor.
  4. Appraise the basic theoretical and ethical frameworks for counselling.
  5. Summarise and critique the research literature on counselling interventions.
  6. Execute the skills of case management.

Unit Content

  1. The philosophy of psychodynamic counselling.
  2. Establishing the therapeutic frame and working alliance - ethics, the setting and contracting.
  3. Clinical skills - observation, active/psychodynamic forms of listening and case management.
  4. The first appointment - history taking, mental status examination, assessment of suitability for treatment.
  5. Working with Psychotherapy process - transfererence, countertransference etc.
  6. Integrating clinical skills and complex psychodynamic concepts within the counsellor role.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

This is essentially a skill development unit which will utilise: modelling, practice, role-play, video replay and case presentation.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentApply concepts to a clinical case50%
ExaminationFormulate a individual psychotherapy clinical case50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Frederickson, Jon. (2013). Psychodynamic Psychotherapy : Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/862610036
  • Howard, S. (2017). Skills in psychodynamic counselling & psychotherapy (Second edition.). Los Angeles: SAGE. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/957533413

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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