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

    Psychotherapy Research
  • Unit Code

    COU6412
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sonam PELDEN

Description

This unit aims to enable students to make critical use of research and evaluation studies in the field of counselling to inform and develop their practice. The emphasis is on producing discerning consumers of research and potential future practitioner-researchers. Students will consider the roles and limitations of quantitative and qualitative methodologies in counselling research, and will critically evaluate a number of research reports.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU6410

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse counselling and psychotherapy data critically using statistical procedures and efficacious research design.
  2. Critically analyse research and evaluation reports in the field of counselling in terms of methodology used, conclusions drawn, and implications for practice.
  3. Demonstrate an ability to identify the relevance of each aspect of research in respect of particular research questions.
  4. Describe and critically evaluate the major features of quantitative and qualitative methodologies used in counselling research.
  5. Evaluate counselling process and outcome research.

Unit Content

  1. Research design and data analysis in qualitative research: issues of validity and reliability in qualitative research.
  2. Research design and data analysis in quantitative research: the place of statistical analysis, and the contribution of basic statistical measures and tests.
  3. The nature of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, and the role of each in counselling research.
  4. The nature, role and inter-relationship of outcome and process research in counselling and psychotherapy.
  5. The place of single case design in counselling and psychotherapy research.
  6. The research process: framing the research question.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Material will be presented in lecture and seminar format. There will be a particular emphasis placed on analysis in depth of a number of research studies selected as exemplars of aspects of research design.

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
PresentationFormulation of research topic and questions10%
AssignmentLiterature review40%
AssignmentResearch proposal 50%

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

    Psychotherapy Research
  • Unit Code

    COU6412
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sonam PELDEN

Description

This unit aims to enable students to make critical use of research and evaluation studies in the field of counselling to inform and develop their practice. The emphasis is on producing discerning consumers of research and potential future practitioner-researchers. Students will consider the roles and limitations of quantitative and qualitative methodologies in counselling research, and will critically evaluate a number of research reports.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU6410

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse counselling and psychotherapy data critically using statistical procedures and efficacious research design.
  2. Critically analyse research and evaluation reports in the field of counselling in terms of methodology used, conclusions drawn, and implications for practice.
  3. Demonstrate an ability to identify the relevance of each aspect of research in respect of particular research questions.
  4. Describe and critically evaluate the major features of quantitative and qualitative methodologies used in counselling research.
  5. Evaluate counselling process and outcome research.

Unit Content

  1. Research design and data analysis in qualitative research: issues of validity and reliability in qualitative research.
  2. Research design and data analysis in quantitative research: the place of statistical analysis, and the contribution of basic statistical measures and tests.
  3. The nature of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, and the role of each in counselling research.
  4. The nature, role and inter-relationship of outcome and process research in counselling and psychotherapy.
  5. The place of single case design in counselling and psychotherapy research.
  6. The research process: framing the research question.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Material will be presented in lecture and seminar format. There will be a particular emphasis placed on analysis in depth of a number of research studies selected as exemplars of aspects of research design.

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
PresentationFormulation of research topic and questions10%
AssignmentLiterature review40%
AssignmentResearch proposal 50%

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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