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Ms Maureen Tan

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 2344
Email: maureen.tan@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8704-8634

Maureen is a lecturer in the Counselling discipline, nested in the School of Arts and Humanities.

Current teaching

  • COU1101 - Dynamic Models of Counselling
  • COU3105 - Psychodynamic Concepts into Practice
  • COU3106 - Skills Training in Humanistic Counselling
  • COU1201 Therapeutic Practice with Families and Couples
  • COU2101 Therapeutic Practice with Children and Adolescents
  • COU6121 Psychodynamic Theories of Counselling
  • COU6324 Individual Psychotherapy Practice 2

Background

As a clinician, lecturer and researcher, Maureen's interest lies in the intersection between existentialism, phenomenology and psychoanalytic theories.  As a unified conceptual framework, it offers a view into the ways we interact and move in the world, exercise choices and our freedom, as beings in a temporospatial dimension.

Professional associations

  • 2024 - 2025 PACFA West Leadership Group
  • 2023 - Health Consumer Council Member
  • 2021 - Member WA Advanced Care Planning Education for Health Professionals and Community
  • 2017 - PACFA member

Research areas and interests

  • Psycho-oncology
  • Counselling and Psychotherapy
  • Phenomenology
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Hermeneutics

Qualifications

  • Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Edith Cowan University, 2018.

Research Outputs

Journal Articles

  • Weaver, R., O’connor, M., Golding, R., Gibson, C., White, R., Jackson, M., Langbecker, D., Bosco, A., Tan, M., Halkett, G. (2022). “My life’s not my own”: A qualitative study into the expectations of head and neck cancer carers. Supportive Care in Cancer, 30(5), 4073-4080. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-021-06761-1.
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