Systemic Practice in Family Therapy: Concepts and Issues/Including diversity issues and ethics in family therapy

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Objectives

• Conduct a collaborative assessment of families to determine: their main concerns, their level of engagement with change, who to include, whether the work is likely to be short or long term
• Assess for safety and risk while building the therapeutic relationship

Assignment

1. on-line quiz
2. 2000 word essay

Topics and activities

• Lectures on questioning to elicit factors important for determining the most useful therapeutic approach.
• Lectures on working with a number of different scenarios where risk is a factor, and how to work with this while maintaining and even building on engagement.
• On-line forum discussion and/or webinar discussion
• Case studies, written and video-taped
• Readings
• Personal reflection and journalling