Aims and objectives
Aims:
The aim of this Unit of Study is to provide students with an advanced level of understanding of the complexities of families’ responses to grief and loss and of effective ways to provide therapeutic support from a systemic perspective. Students will also be competent in working with families where there has been abuse or trauma at a level that has significantly distressed and disrupted family life and functioning.
Learning Objectives:
After successfully completing this Unit of Study, students should be able to:
1). Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the complexities of families' responses to grief, loss and/or trauma.
2). Demonstrate an advanced understanding of ways to provide therapeutic support to families who have experienced loss, grief and/or trauma from a systemic perspective.
3). Demonstrate competence in working with families where there has been abuse or trauma at a level that has significantly distressed and disrupted family life and functioning.
Teaching methods
3 hour seminar/lecture per week. In a semester, students should normally expect to spend, on average, twelve and a half hours of total time (formal contact time plus independent study time) a week on a 12.5 credit point unit of study.
Assessment
Case Study Presentation (oral and written) (3500 words) (50%)
Seminar Paper (2500 words) (50%)
Content
1). Conservation of Resources Model (COR) of Grief Stress and trauma.
2). Clinical Assessment – Family Therapy Approaches.
3). Psychiatric Classification.
4). Case Conceptualisation and Recovery Model.
5). Neuro-science research and implications for the treatment of complex grief and trauma.
6). Family responses to the death of a child.
7). Families and divorce.
8). Abuse & Mental health.
9). Chronic Illness & mental health
10). Mental health & Drug and Alcohol
11). Treatment of grief and trauma in Children 1
12). Treatment of grief and trauma in Children 2
