PSY904 Clinical studies - family therapy

The course is connected to the following study programs

• Family Therapy, Continuing Education, One-year Programme, Part-time
• Familieterapi, videreutdanning deltid
• Family Therapy, Continuing Education, One-year Programme, Part-time

Teaching language

This course is taught in Norwegian and an English translation of the course description is not available.

Course contents

Central topics:

• Practising clinical interview techniques

• Examination of roles as interviewer, observant and interviewee

• Role-play of work with clients showing different therapeutic approaches

• Presentation of clinical videos related to theory, methodical approaches and ethical questions

• Work with the students' clinical videos related to theory, methodical approaches and ethical questions

Learning outcomes

After having completed the course, students will:

• have developed family therapeutic attitudes and skills

• to a greater degree have integrated knowledge and experience

have developed his/her personal and therapeutic working methods based on clinical supervision with personal strength and competence emphasised

Teaching methods

Clinical supervision:

Students' testing of new approaches in working with clients must take place in the presence of qualified supervisors. Students must obtain supervisors on their own, the choice of which must be approved by the faculty.

Education requirements for supervisors:

• A minimum of 3 years experience as a family therapist

• Have a thorough knowledge about relation and system oriented theories and to the development within the field

• Be a supervisor approved by own union when such arrangements exist

Evaluation

The person responsible for the course, in consultation with the student representative, decides the method of evaluation and whether the courses will have a midterm- or end of term evaluation, see also the Quality System, section 4.1. Information about evaluation method for the course will be posted on Canvas.

Assessment methods and criteria

• The student must be able to document 100 hours of work as a family therapist during the study programme. The student must also have received an attestation on 120 hours of supervision (included 30 hours directly supervision) which must be assessed as a pass. The supervision will be given to groups and one lesson is 45 minutes.

• Oral examination based on a video in which the students present their clinical work with a family.

The clincal studies and the oral examination will be assessed as pass or fail.

Reduction of Credits

This course’s contents overlap with the following courses. A reduction of credits will occur if one of these courses is taken in addition:

Course	Reduction of Credits
PSY415 – Clinical Studies - Family Therapy	20
PSY908 – Psychosocial Work - Practices, Theories and Ethical Dilemmas	15